Book tickets online and collect from your local station (use booking reference). Cross Countrytrains seem busy. Looks like many people reserve seats! New Street being redeveloped until 2015!
If you have a ticket and miss your connecting train, and it's the last train, go to the customer reception and they will order you a taxi for free to your destination!
I love New St. In the 1850s it was Grand Central, now the shopping mall and tram stop above. Trackside it is hard to see what has changed. Interchanges present signalling and routing challenges.
UPDATE MAY 2013: Phase 1 of the new station is open. Pub gone! Brand New Exits. New lifts and escalators at end of B on EVERY platform except 1B which has stairs. Add 10 minutes incase u get lost!!
Quite often the national rail website will leave more time imbetween trains than is needed, and if you're on the ball, you can catch an earlier one. Just make sure your ticket is "any route permitted"
Brummies must think the only people coming and going from Birmingham New St are locals. Signage and way finding at station threshold to local area is woeful.
If your want to traverse easier between platform; head to B-end Platforms as the concourse spreads from 1 to 12. Platform A is split and means ticketing out and back in again.
For those looking for bins in new street u won't find at this train station is like airport security no bins so bombs carnt be put into them....bins are outside train station its for our safety....
Nice variety of shops to pick from, so you can easily find some food that you like - but the shops are overpriced. Located very close to the main shopping centre too, which is very convenient.
I used to know my way round this station but since the redecoration, I keep leaving from the wrong exit! There is a sign hanging from the ceiling for directions to Moor Street if you can spot it.
Bring something to do at this station and a coat because as well as being freezing, its also very boring! Camden food company is a nice place to get a coffee and its just through the barriers
If you've got you're to kill, head out of the main exit, to the main road and turn right, down the hill. The cracking little SunflowerLoungebar is 30 seconds down the hill.
I don't understand all the hating of this station! It's compact, easy to navigate, there are tons of screens showing departures. People are friendly. Compare with Clapham junction!
If you get the lift that goes down underneath the platforms and back up to the concourse on platform 6.. You come out after the ticket check area! WIN!