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 | Birmingham International Airport, to the south-east of the city, is located close to the Jaguar, Land Rover and Rover plants and the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Europe's busiest exhibition centre. |
| Birmingham is also close to popular tourist destinations such as Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare, and the Cotswolds area renowned for its beautiful countryside and picture-book English villages. |
| A main line railway station lies adjacent to the airport, which is located close to motorway connections for the M6 to the North, M5 to the West and M40 to London. |
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London and Birmingham Railway (288 words) |
| The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it becam a constituent part of the London and North Western Railway. |
| The railway line that the company built and owned between London and Birmingham, which opened in 1838, was one of the first intercity railway lines in the world and the first railway line to be built into London. |
| The Birmingham end of the line terminated at Curzon Street Station, which it effectively shared with the Grand Junction Railway (GJR), whose platfoms were adjacent, providing a link to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), and thus through travel from London to those cities. |
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