How to Get to the Good Food Show,
NEC, Birmingham 2009
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The NEC is about eight miles east of Birmingham and the full address
is:
Birmingham NEC
Birmingham
B40 1NT
BY CAR
The following major roads have signs on them directing you to the NEC.
They are the M6 (junction 4), M42 (junction junction 6), A45 and the
A446.
For directions, click
here to go to the excellent Multimap site. Enter your start town
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A good free site for finding out about traffic jams and
road works in the UK is
Traffic England.
As for traffic jams, if you arrive at the show any later
than 10am then be prepared for queues on the surrounding roads and into
car park. Get there as early as possible is our advice for avoiding
traffic jams around the NEC.
BY RAIL
The rail station for the NEC is Birmingham International, this is
NOT the same station as Birmingham New St. There are trains between
Birmingham International and Birmingham New St at approximately minute
intervals, slightly less on Sundays but still an excellent service.
When you get to Birmingham International follow the
signs to the NEC. It will take you about 12 minutes to walk from the
station to the NEC. Part of the walk has moving walkways to make it
easier on your feet.
Trains to Birmingham from around the UK are good, it is
a major terminal. A good site for rail prices, planning and journey
times is National
Rail Enquiries.
BY COACH
If you plan to travel independently by coach to the NEC then the nearest
coach station is Digbeth Birmingham. The 900 bus operates a service from
Digbeth to Birmingham International Station, The busses run
approximately every 20 minutes with a journey time of 25 minutes. Once
at Birmingham International Station follow the instructions for "BY
RAIL" above.
PACKAGED TRIPS
As the date of the show gets nearer there will be a variety of packaged
offerings which include coach travel to the NEC and often one or two
nights in a local hotel.
Click here
for the ones we have found on the internet so far. Note that these trips
are NOT arranged by CookUK and we are in no way endorsing them.
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