{"id":568912,"date":"2026-05-06T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:19:08","slug":"derailed-freight-train-near-wolverhampton-causes-commuter-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568912\/","title":{"rendered":"Derailed freight train near Wolverhampton causes commuter disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LNR and WMR trains were unable to run in either direction between Wolverhampton and Telford Central, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalrail.co.uk\/service-disruptions\/bilbrook-20260505\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to National Rail., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bus shuttle service was running between Birmingham and Wolverhampton via Darlaston and Willenhall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This derailment has damaged the overhead electric wires and knocked over the supports which keep them in the air,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk\/travel-information\/service-disruptions\/service-suspended-between-telford-wolverhampton\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to WMR&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WMR added repairs following the incident may carry on until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TfW said they could not operate trains either way between Birmingham International and Shrewsbury, with rail replacement in operation between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Customers were advised tickets could be used on selected alternative services for no additional cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avanti West Coast advised customers tickets were valid on one of the operator&#8217;s two services immediately before or after their booked trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LNR and WMR trains were unable to run in either direction between Wolverhampton and Telford Central, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568912","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\/568912","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=568912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}