{"id":245398,"date":"2025-07-07T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245398\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:54:09","slug":"rail-passengers-hit-by-delays-and-cancellations-after-points-failure-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245398\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail passengers hit by delays and cancellations after points failure in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue was reported on the tracks near platforms 4 and 4C at around 9.24am on Monday (July 7) by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Railway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rail operator said that disruption was expected until the end of the day, with services through the station either being cancelled or delayed.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Railway said at the time: &#8220;Due to a points failure at Birmingham New Street, fewer trains are able to run on some lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Train services running through this station may be cancelled or delayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was reported at around 2pm that the issue had been resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The issue was reported on the tracks near platforms 4 and 4C at around 9.24am on Monday (July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245398","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-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-transport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114812293147134284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245398","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=245398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}