{"id":289784,"date":"2025-07-25T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289784\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:36:11","slug":"birmingham-to-lichfield-cross-city-rail-line-to-shut-for-hs2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289784\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham to Lichfield Cross City rail line to shut for HS2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Network Rail said everything had been done to cause the least amount of disruption to the fewest number of people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacement bus services will be in operation between Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is never a good time for closures like this and I am sorry for the inconvenience, but school holidays and summer breaks means passenger numbers are lower at this time of year,&#8221; said Denise Wetton, Network Rail&#8217;s central route director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 24 metres high, the new structure will be the tallest in a one-mile stretch of new viaducts carrying high-speed trains into Birmingham. The curved design will feature a unique light installation, set to become a new landmark on the city&#8217;s skyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Network Rail said everything had been done to cause the least amount of disruption to the fewest number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-289784","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114912256748383920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289784","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=289784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}