{"id":629024,"date":"2025-12-12T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:11:15","slug":"rail-travellers-left-facing-disruption-after-operational-issue-causes-lines-in-birmingham-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail travellers left facing disruption after &#8216;operational issue&#8217; causes lines in Birmingham to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Railway reported at 4.45pm that the issue at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham<\/a> New Street station had caused some lines to be closed into the station, with tickets being accepted on metro and bus services.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/transport\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Railway<\/a> said: &#8220;Due to an operational incident at Birmingham New Street some lines are blocked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;West Midlands train tickets will be accepted on <a href=\"https:\/\/nxbus.co.uk\/west-midlands\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">National Express West Midlands buses<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlandsmetro.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Midland Metro<\/a> as some services may still be subject to delays or alterations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was later confirmed that the lines had been unblocked and services able to return to normal at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Railway said: &#8220;Due to an operational incident earlier at Birmingham New Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lines have now reopened.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Railway reported at 4.45pm that the issue at Birmingham New Street station had caused some lines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629025,"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-629024","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629024","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=629024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}