{"id":336734,"date":"2025-08-11T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336734\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:36:11","slug":"rail-disruption-set-to-affect-parts-of-wales-and-border-routes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336734\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail disruption set to affect parts of Wales and border routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Network Rail Wales and Borders has announced a series of essential engineering works that will affect parts of Wales and cross-border routes between Hereford, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/newport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Newport;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Newport<\/a>, and Shrewsbury over two weekends in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The works are scheduled for Saturday, September 6, to Monday, September 8, and will resume the following weekend on Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Projects will include track and drainage upgrades at St Julian&#8217;s in Newport and Tram Inn in Hereford, drainage and level crossing maintenance between Cwmbran and Maindee, and earthworks and drainage at Little Stretton between Church Stretton and Craven Arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/drink-driving-laws-bad-news-075449705.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:New drink driving laws are bad news for one-pint-only drinkers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New drink driving laws are bad news for one-pint-only drinkers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/two-horses-killed-two-drivers-104607675.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Two horses killed and two drivers hospitalised in crash on busy Valleys road;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two horses killed and two drivers hospitalised in crash on busy Valleys road<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Read the biggest stories in Wales first by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=aa0abd38-0db5-4492-99f3-e73baecff682&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:signing up to our daily newsletter here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">signing up to our daily newsletter here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Points renewal and signalling improvements will be carried out at Panteg and Pontypool alongside vegetation management to improve safety and visibility along the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To carry out the work safely several sections of the railway will be closed over the two weekends. These will include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newport, via Hereford, to Shrewsbury<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Maindee to Cwmbran, Pontypool, and Panteg<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sutton Bridge Junction (Shrewsbury) to Bromfield, Craven Arms, and Church Stretton<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Replacement bus services will operate between Newport and Shrewsbury calling at all intermediate stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Passengers are urged to check their journey plans before travelling by clicking here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Network Rail Wales and Borders has announced a series of essential engineering works that will affect parts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,120461,120463,120462,4884,62479,15062,380,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-336734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-church-stretton","10":"tag-craven-arms","11":"tag-engineering-works","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-hereford","14":"tag-newport","15":"tag-shrewsbury","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012290852392045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336734","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=336734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}