{"id":541020,"date":"2025-11-01T01:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541020\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:31:27","slug":"disruption-for-rail-passengers-after-reports-of-slippery-rails-between-birmingham-and-shrewsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541020\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruption for rail passengers after reports of slippery rails between Birmingham and Shrewsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Railway<\/a> put out a message to inform passengers of the issue on the line, with the issue having been reported at around 1.14pm today (Friday) and services between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/shrewsbury\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Shrewsbury<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/wolverhampton\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverhampton<\/a> being halted.<\/p>\n<p>The rail provider later said that while services were back up and running between Birmingham New Street and Shrewsbury, it would be a reduced service and there would be replacement road transport in place to help supplement the trains, with disruption expected until the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Railway said: &#8220;Due to slippery rails, services between Shrewsbury and Birmingham New Street may be delayed or cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to a safety inspection of the track, services from Shrewsbury towards Wolverhampton are at a stand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a reduced service between Shrewsbury and Birmingham New Street. Replacement road transport is being ordered to help supplement trains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disruption is expected until the end of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Railway put out a message to inform passengers of the issue on the line, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,1263,16,15,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-541020","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","17":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115471861936823979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541020","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=541020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}