{"id":277248,"date":"2025-07-20T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277248\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:41:11","slug":"six-birmingham-rail-services-delayed-or-cancelled-due-to-shortage-of-train-drivers-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277248\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Birmingham rail services delayed or cancelled due to &#8216;shortage of train drivers&#8217; &#8211; full list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> travellers are being warned to expect disruptions to regular travel due to a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/transport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0shortage of train drivers<\/a> on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The issues are affecting CrossCountry trains only and have led to delays on more than five planned services throughout today.<\/p>\n<p>CrossCountry has said that the delays are due to a &#8216;shortage of train drivers&#8217;, with six services today being cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>On X, a CrossCountry spokesperson said: &#8220;On Sunday, July 20, there will be cancellations and busy services between Nottingham, Birmingham, and Cardiff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please plan ahead and check your journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the service update page on the CrossCountry website, the group said the services are delayed &#8220;due to the lack of drivers&#8221;, also saying that alternative routes closer to end locations are available.<\/p>\n<p>See the full list of delayed or cancelled Birmingham services below.<\/p>\n<p>Cancelled:<\/p>\n<p>09:30 Birmingham New Street to Penzance.<\/p>\n<p>10:12 Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Central<\/p>\n<p>12:30 Birmingham New Street to Reading<\/p>\n<p>14:28 Birmingham New Street to Newcastle\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>18:00 Bristol Temple Meads to Birmingham New Street\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>18:24 Newcastle to Birmingham New Street\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Delayed:<\/p>\n<p>09:01 Birmingham New Street to Manchester Piccadilly due 10:37\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>09:03 Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh due 13:59<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham travellers are being warned to expect disruptions to regular travel due to a\u00a0shortage of train drivers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277249,"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-277248","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\/114885380234588705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277248","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=277248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}