{"id":261149,"date":"2025-07-13T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261149\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:47:12","slug":"birmingham-new-street-station-services-hit-by-major-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261149\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham New Street Station services hit by &#8216;major problems&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delays and cancellations are expected on all services through Birmingham New Steer on Sunday morning<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_IMG_0447.jpg\" alt=\"A general view of the railway tracks at Birmingham New Street Station \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A general view of the railway tracks at Birmingham New Street Station <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Services out of a main Birmingham railway station have been affected by overrunning engineering works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">All services through <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> New Street were affected by an \u2018operational issue\u2019 on Sunday morning, July 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">West Midlands Railway said there were \u2018major problems\u2019 for all services through the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/cross-city-line-summer-shutdown-32042157\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Busy Birmingham commuter routes face week-long summer shutdown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Cross City Line South service, from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/redditch\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Redditch<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/bromsgrove\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bromsgrove<\/a> to the city, was likely to be suspended all morning, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A West Midlands Railway spokeswoman said: \u201cThere were engineering works across a section of the track near New Street last night by Network Rail. The work has overran so the track is still unusable for trains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe are hoping to have it back within an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a post on its social media channels the trains firm said: \u201cOperational issue at Birmingham New Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAll routes through Birmingham New Street are currently affected. The Cross City South is likely to be suspended all morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cRail replacement transport has been ordered between Longbridge and Redditch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe have ticket acceptance with West Midlands Metro. We also have ticket acceptance with National Express West Midlands between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/walsall\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Walsall<\/a>, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sutton-coldfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutton Coldfield<\/a>, Coventry and Longbridge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delays and cancellations are expected on all services through Birmingham New Steer on Sunday morningA general view of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,15137,748,16825,26190,393,22048,4884,15263,38825,45715,38826,7829,16,15,10847,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-261149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-new-street-station","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-bromsgrove","12":"tag-coventry","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-erdington","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-lichfield","17":"tag-longbridge","18":"tag-redditch","19":"tag-rubery-and-rednal","20":"tag-sutton-coldfield","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-walsall","24":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114845059913148574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261149","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=261149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}