Travel updates

• The NEC is the UK’s best-connected venue, located at the heart of the UK.
• We have Birmingham airport and Birmingham International train station on-site.
• Located in the middle of the UK’s motorway network, 75% of people in the UK can reach us within three hours.
• Live events are the number one reason our visitors keep coming to the NEC, and our unrivalled transport links also come top of the list.
• We want to make it even easier for you to get here, and that means working with partners to improve our rail and road connections.

Please note: we are not located in or adjacent to the Birmingham Clean Air Zone but for more information on this and how it may affect your journey please visit Birmingham Clean Air Zone.

• National Highways has a £282 million project to improve your road journey to our Campus.

• A new junction, 5A, will be created on the M42 this will reduce the traffic using J6.

• We expect J5A to open in December 2024.

• Once J5A is open further works will take place at J6 to improve this junction.

• In the longer-term, we have High Speed 2 coming to us.
• This is a complex and ambitious project with an estimated completion time between 2029 and 2033.
• This will see the first stop, only 38 minutes from London, located less than a kilometre from the NEC and directly connected by an automatic people mover linking HS2, the NEC, Birmingham International Railway Station and Birmingham Airport.
• This is a long-term project which will impact on our site operations as the programme of works progresses.  
• HS2 works will also continue both at the North entrance to site and on the roads to the east.