Rail passengers are being warned of disruption for much of Tuesday after a herd of cows wandered on to one of the country’s busiest railway lines.<\/p>\n
The West Coast Main Line was blocked in Staffordshire between Lichfield Trent Valley and Rugeley Trent Valley from just before 09:00 BST, according to National Rail Enquiries.<\/p>\n
The issue was causing delays and cancellations for Avanti West Coast and Lumo services between London Euston and Scotland, as well as London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway services.<\/p>\n
The lines have since reopened but passengers were warned to expect disruption until at least 16:00.<\/p>\n
Tickets were being accepted on some alternative routes and road transport was also being provided, officials said.<\/p>\n
The line is one of the busiest in the country, as it heads from London, through the West Midlands and Manchester and then on to Scotland.<\/p>\n
There were difficulties contacting the farmer responsible for the animals, according to the Press Association.<\/p>\n
Many affected passengers expressed their frustration on social media, with one posting to Avanti West Coast to say they had been stuck on a train that had “not moved for three hours”, while another complained they were only offered one 330ml bottle of water, adding: “I’m sure your shop is doing great business.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail passengers are being warned of disruption for much of Tuesday after a herd of cows wandered on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666176","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\/666176","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=666176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}