{"id":747,"date":"2015-04-08T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/?page_id=747"},"modified":"2022-07-18T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:35:17","slug":"travel-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/travel-to-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham is a large multicultural city, bang in the centre of England, UK, in the West Midlands (<a href=\"http:\/\/visitbirmingham.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/visitbirmingham.com\/<\/a> ), and the Drum (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-drum.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.the-drum.org.uk\/<\/a>) .is in the heart of the Aston\/Newtown\/Lozells area of the city, just to the north of the city centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By air<\/strong>: Birmingham International Airport (<a href=\"https:\/\/birminghamairport.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/birminghamairport.co.uk\/<\/a> ) has international flights from all continents, and domestic flights from many major cities in the UK. Birmingham International also has a railway station (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrainline.com\/stations\/birmingham-international\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thetrainline.com\/stations\/birmingham-international<\/a> ), from which there are regular trains to Birmingham New Street station, in the city centre. Those flying into London Gatwick or Heathrow may wish either to take a domestic flight to Birmingham International, or a coach to Birmingham Digbeth Coach Station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By rail<\/strong>: Birmingham New Street station (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkrail.co.uk\/birmingham-new-street-station\/departures-arrivals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.networkrail.co.uk\/birmingham-new-street-station\/departures-arrivals\/<\/a> ) is the main city centre station, with express trains from most UK locations, but Birmingham Moor Street and Birmingham Snow Hill are also in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By coach<\/strong>: Birmingham Digbeth Coach Station has National Express coaches (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalexpress.com\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nationalexpress.com\/home.aspx<\/a> ) from around the country, and direct from the main London airports.<\/p>\n<p><b>Travel to the Drum<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The most convenient way to travel to the Drum from Birmingham city centre is by taxi (10-15 minutes): there is a taxi rank outside the station or a list of private hire taxi companies that you can phone to pick you up (usually cheaper than black cabs) is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yell.com\/s\/taxis-birmingham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.yell.com\/s\/taxis-birmingham.html<\/a> . The centre is also well-served by bus, including the nos. 7, 8, 33 and 51.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on how to get to the Drum by car, bus, rail or air, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-drum.org.uk\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.the-drum.org.uk\/contact\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham is a large multicultural city, bang in the centre of England, UK, in the West Midlands (http:\/\/visitbirmingham.com\/ ), and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/travel-to-birmingham\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Travel to Birmingham<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-747","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}