Transfer~1h 47 est. drive
Birminghamany addressManchesterany address
door to door
Private road transfer — availability and price depend on the provider; this is not an offer
Route
Birmingham to Manchester
2 ways to get from Birmingham to Manchester
Birminghamany addressManchesterany address
- Distance
- 139.7 km by road
- Operators
- CrossCountry
- Transfer ~1h 47 est. drive
- Regional train time not published
BirminghamManchester
- Transfer~1h 47 est.any addressany address
- Regional train—Birmingham New StreetManchester Piccadilly
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Journey times and carriers on this route.
Regional traintime not published
BirminghamBirmingham New StreetManchesterManchester Piccadilly
direct, 2 trains per hour via Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent or Macclesfield/Stockport
CrossCountry
Before you land
The parts people get wrong. Each one links to where we checked it.
Easy to get wrong
CrossCountry runs no London services at all (confirmed on its own Wikipedia infrastructure page: 'all CrossCountry services now completely avoid Greater London' since 2008) - it should never be listed as an option for a London-Manchester or London-Birmingham journey, only for journeys that don't touch London.
en.wikipedia.org · checked 2026-09-10
Hours
The two-trains-per-hour figure is a combined frequency across slightly different calling patterns (via Stoke-on-Trent versus via Macclesfield/Stockport) rather than one single line running every 30 minutes.
en.wikipedia.org · checked 2026-09-10