{"id":589035,"date":"2026-05-17T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589035\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:45:07","slug":"manchester-trains-cancelled-live-travel-chaos-as-tunnel-shut-for-urgent-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589035\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester trains cancelled live: Travel chaos as tunnel shut for urgent repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a statement, Network Rail said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve closed Sough tunnel &#8211; the railway tunnel connecting Blackburn and Bolton &#8211; while our engineers carry out an inspection of the structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We expect the line to be closed for most of today. We\u2019re sorry to anyone affected and thank you for bearing with us. Rail replacement buses are running to keep people moving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Please check nationalrail.co.uk before you travel for the latest updates. We\u2019ll share more information once we\u2019ve completed our checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, Network Rail said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve closed Sough tunnel &#8211; the railway tunnel connecting Blackburn and Bolton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[390,84,59,1768,23726,19827,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-manchester","tag-railways","tag-trains","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589035","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=589035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}