{"id":684148,"date":"2026-07-10T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684148\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:59:11","slug":"west-midlands-rail-disruption-amid-strike-action-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684148\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands rail disruption amid strike action and fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Routes with a limited service on those days are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cross City Line (Lichfield Trent Valley to Redditch \/ Bromsgrove via Birmingham New Street) \u2013 two trains per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolverhampton to Walsall via Birmingham New Street \u2013 one train per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugeley Trent Valley to Birmingham International via Birmingham New Street \u2013 one train per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No trains are due to run on any other WMR route, including via Birmingham Snow Hill, the Camp Hill line, services between Nuneaton and Leamington Spa, and services from Birmingham New Street to Hereford and Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Northwestern Railway services will also be disrupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes one train an hour on Birmingham-Liverpool services and Birmingham-Northampton-Milton Keynes-London Euston services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No trains will run on any other LNR route, including those via The Potteries (Stafford &#8211; Crewe via Stoke-on-Trent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Northwestern Railway services<a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk\/industrialaction\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> are also disrupted, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rail replacement is in operation between:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Longbridge and Bromsgrove\/Redditch<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lichfield City and Sutton Coldfield<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugeley Trent Valley and Walsall<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The union is calling for the same deal as other unions had secured relating to rest day working on a Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Transport (DfT) had &#8220;repeatedly failed&#8221; to fulfil their assurances that an improved agreement would be secured, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A DfT spokesperson said: &#8220;We know how frustrating disruption can be for passengers which is why WM Trains are putting them first and looking to engage further with the TSSA union to find a way forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We strongly encourage both sides to continue to engage to reach a solution and avoid any further impacts on services and passengers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonny Wiseman, WMR customer experience director, said: &#8220;We are working hard to reach a resolution to this dispute and urge TSSA to continue talks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Routes with a limited service on those days are: Cross City Line (Lichfield Trent Valley to Redditch \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684148","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=684148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}