{"id":706477,"date":"2026-07-23T04:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706477\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:36:19","slug":"severn-valley-railway-to-trial-bewdley-kidderminster-commuter-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706477\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn Valley Railway to trial Bewdley-Kidderminster commuter service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service will operate on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with two departures in the mornings at 06:40 and 07:40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers will change trains at Kidderminster and continue from there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After connecting at Kidderminster, passengers will arrive at Birmingham Snow Hill at 07:46 and 08:46 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The evening return services will leave Snow Hill at 16:46 and 17:46, arriving in Bewdley at 17:57 and 19:02 following a change at Kidderminster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SVR said the trial was part of a long term project to assess the potential for introducing regular passenger rail services between Bewdley and the wider West Midlands rail network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If demand is demonstrated, it could pave the way for selected services that currently terminate at Kidderminster to be extended to Bewdley in future,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The service will operate on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with two departures in the mornings at 06:40 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706477","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\/706477","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=706477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}