Monday, 16 June 2025

E Brum & Solihull tram extension - Jane Haynes

READ MORE: £1 bn tram plan for Blues, NEC, HS2 and Birmingham Airport unveiled that will 'change lives'

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/first-look-new-tram-route-31816837

The line would then continue along Bordesley Green East on to Meadway to Chelmsley Wood before, most likely, snaking down Chelmsley Road and Coleshill Heath Road, bypassing the Rolls Royce premises.

The indicative line then dissects the Airport on one side and the NEC and Resorts World on the other, via Birmingham International train station, before turning east to the new HS2 interchange station and Arden Cross science and health campus nearby.

Estimates published as part of a new funding deal agreed with the Government suggest the first phase of the scheme - covering less than 1.5 miles - from Curzon Street, site of the new HS2 station, via Digbeth to St Andrew's, would cost £400 million.

The costs would also include planning and designing the whole line, including detailed design, surveys and public consultation for the whole 10 miles route, and putting in the most complicated section from Digbeth to Small Heath, including designing the best way for the line to cross the Lawley Middleway/A45 ring road.

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