Interchange, Airport, West Coast Main Line station, and the National Exhibition Centre. Not much point in having a high-speed railway on the doorstep if you have to walk between the plane and the train (or the exhibition). So HS2 Ltd, the company formed to build Britain’s high-speed railway project, has unveiled the shortlisted bidders for the Automated People Mover (APM) at the Interchange station in Solihull, on the southern edge of Birmingham.
Doppelmayr Cable Car UK Limited and POMA S.A.S may not be the most familiar names in the rail transit canon. They are however the companies on the shortlist for moving you and everyone else between the Solihull Interchange and contracts involve working with HS2 Ltd to deliver and maintain the cable system operation for the APM over 25 years.
HS2 reveals shortlist for mass transit system at Solihull Interchange | RailTech
APM 2.2 km long
For comparison, the Luton DART (cable peoplemover at Luton Airport) is just over 2km (at the moment, extension passively provisioned), and is a Dopplemayr product. Some troubles during the building but I believe it is reliable now.