{"id":361009,"date":"2026-01-09T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:20:07","slug":"thousands-of-west-midlands-homes-without-power-as-storm-goretti-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361009\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of West Midlands homes without power as Storm Goretti strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heritage railway helps clear snowpublished at 11:29 GMT<\/p>\n

11:29 GMT<\/p>\n

Whether it’s crashing cars, power outages, tricky commutes, or the dangers of fallen trees and cables, we’ve been building a picture for you this morning of challenges being faced across the region.<\/p>\n

But amid it all, there are the people chipping in to help.<\/p>\n

Some of those, such as the firefighters and engineers we’ve been telling you about, are paid to do it.<\/p>\n

Others have given their time voluntarily, such as the tractor drivers of Much Wenlock<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There’s been similar community spirit coming from Severn Valley Railway, which helped Network Rail to clear tracks overnight.<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Severn Valley Railway<\/p>\n

The heritage attraction was asked whether it had access to snow ploughs that could be retro-fitted to engines. In turn, it was able to get in touch with a local group of rail enthusiasts who had exactly what Network Rail needed.<\/p>\n

Gus Dunster from Severn Valley, said a plough went out at 23:00 yesterday and came back at 08:00 this morning, after clearing tracks all over the West Midlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heritage railway helps clear snowpublished at 11:29 GMT 11:29 GMT Whether it’s crashing cars, power outages, tricky commutes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-361009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361009","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=361009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}