Birmingham - Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking from Birmingham

Hitchhiking to Birmingham

Recent reviews mentioning Birmingham

52.87261, -2.16352

Its a services, what more is there to say?
Got a lift that could have taken me all the way to Bristol, but only needed to go to burmingham
―Ryancomet

52.64329, -2.05809

A lovely brummy couple took us to Manchester after only 15 mins of asking around!
―Anonymous

52.46291, -1.99883

Direction: M5 south (Bristol). Here you get both trafic from the gas station and the road. Plenty of space to stop. A gold spot.
―Anonymous

52.4301, -2.01874

Will get a ride from here, had a few offers but not going far. It just might take a while, expect 20 minuets are more.
―Anonymous

52.51119, -1.97135

Cars can stop, going out to M5 to South and M6 to North, but in 2010 march we were standing here for 3 hours in the rain without luck.
―Anonymous

The original Spaghetti junction - never tried it myself, but I can image it'd be average to bad, although in walking distance from Birmingham city center and also safely reachable on foot. Cars have space to pull over, go past quite quckly in two lanes, though. Also there's quite a lot of police going past.
―Anonymous

52.47145, -1.54659

Motorway services. Good for getting a ride in any direction (there is a northbound and southbound side, and a bridge connecting them).
―Anonymous

52.42823, -2.01704

They'll kick you out of the petrol station, but the restaurant place is all right.
―Anonymous

52.6434, -2.05607

All right to go to Birmingham, somewhat harder to go towards London, but as in this country everything revolves around that city, you'll get there all right. I was standing in the entrance area to the restaurant bit and they tried to kick me out... just before I got lucky, finally.
―Anonymous

52.42927, -2.01797

Frankley Service Station.

You can get there by taking Bus #22 getting off at final destination. Then you have to walk the road further on, to the motorway. There is a bridge so you have access to both southern and northern directions.

EDIT:
From this spot I already hitched to Scotland, Cornwall and Wales. You can even get to the Northeast from here by following the M6 to Manchester and then turning eastwards.
―Anonymous

52.46291, -1.99883

It's ok. Guy who was leaving gas station picked me up to Bromsgrove. I waited something about 20 minutes at the early evening.
―Ppaatt1

52.42927, -2.01797

Frankley Southbound can be quite bad , often up to 2 hours , and there is often only 30 cars an hour ... No car driver would stop here as it is a sh*** hole
―Colinc

52.4301, -2.01874

A lot of cars driving slowly, so it's a good spot.
―LuciMK

52.4301, -2.01874

Got dropped off here begin of April. Got another ride at 2pm within 30min with my sign saying "M6 North". Waited after the petrol station. But you can even ask people at parking area.
―LaZubi

52.4301, -2.01874

Plenty of space for cars to stop.
―Mikael

52.4301, -2.01874

I managed to get a lift yesterday from the first person I asked all the way up to nearly Manchester
―Driftwood

52.47145, -1.54659

Got dropped off here begin of April. Got another ride at 3pm within 5min with my sign saying "M6 North". Waited after the petrol station. But you can even ask people at parking area.
Bridge gives you even the oportunity to go to M1 if you want to hitchhike north.
―LaZubi