Originally Posted by christmasoompa

35 minutes perhaps (last I heard it was 16 mins), but then that chucks me out at a station outside Birmingham, rather than the current city centre location. So that 35 mins (plus more) will have to be spent transferring back into Birmingham.

And yet it's primarily going to improve the journeys of those travelling on business apparently. Of course it is, don't all business people have their meetings miles outside of the city centre?!