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How to book Trains to Birmingham

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About Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England and is the second most populous city in the United Kingdom after London. Birmingham is now a major commercial centre and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education and academic research in the UK outside London. Culturally Birmingham has the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Birmingham is a major transport hub on the motorway, rail and canal networks and is served by the M5, M6, M40, and M42 motorways and Birmingham Airport is located six miles east of the city centre in the neighbouring borough of Solihull. Birmingham city centre also has three major railway stations; Birmingham New Street, Birmingham Snow Hill and Birmingham Moor Street.