{"id":684349,"date":"2026-01-09T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684349\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:22:10","slug":"thousands-of-west-midlands-homes-without-power-as-storm-goretti-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684349\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of West Midlands homes without power as Storm Goretti strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Significant&#8217; rail disruption on CrossCountry servicespublished at 11:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weather has had a &#8220;significant impact&#8221; on CrossCountry network services particularly across the West Midlands, the company said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Westcott, CrossCountry&#8217;s Service Delivery Director, explained: \u201cHeavy snowfall in the Birmingham area resulted in several trains being stranded and prevented access to our depot, meaning many trains were unable to refuel overnight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Canley Railway station\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6bb5b89b-365c-4cf5-91d3-f926ee2ffd3e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was the scene at Canley Railway station in Coventry earlier<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: \u201cAs a result, services today are severely disrupted. There are currently no services operating from Birmingham towards Manchester, Nottingham or Cardiff, with only a limited service running on other routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our teams are working around the clock with Network Rail to manage the impacts of the storm while maintaining a safe service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Customers are strongly advised to check before travelling. Tickets dated for travel [on Friday] can be used on CrossCountry services up to and including Monday 12 January.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Significant&#8217; rail disruption on CrossCountry servicespublished at 11:08 GMT 11:08 GMT The weather has had a &#8220;significant impact&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684349","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\/115864885446804098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684349","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=684349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}