Birmingham new st station?

[Ry_B]

Hi guys
I know my way around brum roughly, but my mate is coming down and is going to meet me at bham new st station in 2 weeks, where abouts is new st station? Wheres the best place to park for me to wait for my mate?

[The Tea Boy]

Ry_B said:

Hi guys
I know my way around brum roughly, but my mate is coming down and is going to meet me at bham new st station in 2 weeks, where abouts is new st station? Wheres the best place to park for me to wait for my mate?

its actually under the palacades shopping centre, no parking that close by, my guess would be to park at the bull ring and walk (by the way i dont live in brum but worked down there a few yrs ago and still go every now and then) im sure someone with more idea will be along later, if not i hope this helps

Matt

[Exoticaholic]

The Tea Boy said:

Ry_B said:

Hi guys
I know my way around brum roughly, but my mate is coming down and is going to meet me at bham new st station in 2 weeks, where abouts is new st station? Wheres the best place to park for me to wait for my mate?

its actually under the palacades shopping centre, no parking that close by, my guess would be to park at the bull ring and walk (by the way i dont live in brum but worked down there a few yrs ago and still go every now and then) im sure someone with more idea will be along later, if not i hope this helps

Matt

There IS parking in front of the station but quite expensive for brief periods. you'll have to tell him to come out of the station into the car park while you wait in the car.

[Petoz]

Exoticaholic said:

There IS parking in front of the station but quite expensive for brief periods. you'll have to tell him to come out of the station into the car park while you wait in the car.

I believe the parking just in front of the station is free for the first 20 minutes. It was last time I was there anyway, a couple of months ago. So if you time it right, shouldn't cost you anything. To get to that car park you need to turn towards the bullring from the roundabout with the Japanese pagoda thing in the middle of it. And as The Tea Boy said, it is under the Palisades. Hope that helps.

[Exoticaholic]

Petoz said:

Exoticaholic said:

There IS parking in front of the station but quite expensive for brief periods. you'll have to tell him to come out of the station into the car park while you wait in the car.

I believe the parking just in front of the station is free for the first 20 minutes. It was last time I was there anyway, a couple of months ago. So if you time it right, shouldn't cost you anything. To get to that car park you need to turn towards the bullring from the roundabout with the Japanese pagoda thing in the middle of it. And as The Tea Boy said, it is under the Palisades. Hope that helps.

Thanks, I must have missed that bit! Blame selective eyesight on that day

[marcosal]

Exoticaholic said:

Petoz said:

Exoticaholic said:

There IS parking in front of the station but quite expensive for brief periods. you'll have to tell him to come out of the station into the car park while you wait in the car.

I believe the parking just in front of the station is free for the first 20 minutes. It was last time I was there anyway, a couple of months ago. So if you time it right, shouldn't cost you anything. To get to that car park you need to turn towards the bullring from the roundabout with the Japanese pagoda thing in the middle of it. And as The Tea Boy said, it is under the Palisades. Hope that helps.

Thanks, I must have missed that bit! Blame selective eyesight on that day

There is a 2 storey multistorey car park above the station that serves both the station and the Pallisades

[Will26]

Theres also a nice little tunnel outside the station on the way to Moor street.

[over_the_hill]

If your mate is willing the best option by far would be to get him to transfer to a local train and pick him up from a station a couple of stops out from New Street.
Then you get much easier and probably free parking and don't have to endure the traffic in the centre. I have lived in Birmingham all of my life but the "new" road layout since the Bullring has been developed is a mare.