Birmingham New Street in numbers
Birmingham New Street - the station in stats
Birmingham New Street’s stunning new look station opened its doors to 170,000 passengers a day on Sunday after a five-year, £750M transformation. Here are the project's vital statistics:
£750M cost of the project
60,000 capacity of the previous station which opened in 1967
170,000 passengers using the station every day
300,000 new daily passenger capacity
37 seconds between trains arriving and departing - the busiest UK station outside London
1,100 tonnes of steel make up the façade
8,000 stainless steel panels in the facade
500,000 number of fixing structures supporting the facade
36 new escalators installed to improve vertical access to the platforms
15 new lifts make the station fully accessible for the first time
60% of rain water is harvested from the façade and used to flush station toilets
1,000 jobs created through John Lewis and Grand Central retail developments
1,200 workers on average on site increasing to 3,500 at the end
1,854 original station first opened
3,300 square metres of new atrium, the size of a football pitch
5,000 tonnes of concrete removed from the old NCP car park to create the first half of the new concourse
7,000 tonnes of concrete removed from Stephenson Tower
10,000 lorry journeys taken off Birmingham’s roads by using trains to transport waste material
20,000 tonnes of concrete removed to create the space for the atrium
200,000 sq ft of retail space in Grand Central
250,000 sq ft of space in John Lewis
98% Amount of material recycled on the project