1. There is a train every hour, but the first one doesn't reach Stansted until 08.39 which may be too late - I haven't checked Primera's proposed TA schedule.
2. I couldn't agree more that BHX doesn't make nearly enough of it rail access. On another thread people are arguing whether travellers from the SW could be persuaded to use CWL. Surely getting on a train to Birmingham international is much easier.