{"id":355190,"date":"2026-01-06T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355190\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:16:04","slug":"birmingham-trains-delayed-after-wartime-bomb-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355190\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham trains delayed after wartime bomb found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rail passengers have been warned of delays and cancellations after a suspected unexploded wartime bomb was found near a line in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An old mortar device was discovered at to Duddeston Mill Trading Estate, on Duddeston Mill Road, Washwood Heath, at about 09:45 GMT on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Rail said disruption through Birmingham New Street was expected to last until 12:30 GMT, and lines between New Street and Duddeston had been closed as a result, prompting delays and cancellations on services between Tamworth, Derby and Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bomb disposal team is attending the incident and a 100m exclusion zone is in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail passengers have been warned of delays and cancellations after a suspected unexploded wartime bomb was found near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-355190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}