{"id":141845,"date":"2025-05-29T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141845\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:34:09","slug":"tree-down-on-cross-city-line-causes-chaos-for-rush-hour-commuters-between-sutton-coldfield-and-lichfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141845\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree down on cross city line causes chaos for rush hour commuters between Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Railway<\/a> says it is now affecting services both ways on the Cross City Line, with rail replacement buses ordered for between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/sutton-coldfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutton Coldfield<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/staffordshire\/lichfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lichfield <\/a>due to the train crew being stranded.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is also affecting services between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> and Bromsgrove and Hereford and they are likely to be delayed or cancelled at short notice.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket acceptance with National Express is in place between Lichfield and Longbridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest tweet from West Midlands Railway says it is now affecting services both ways on the Cross&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,77,4884,15263,379,12,604,7829,183,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-141845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-lichfield","14":"tag-local-hubs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-staffordshire","17":"tag-sutton-coldfield","18":"tag-travel","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114592092214840039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}