{"id":686491,"date":"2026-01-10T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:00:10","slug":"transport-for-wales-and-west-midlands-railway-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686491\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport for Wales and West Midlands Railway cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Services for operators Transport for Wales and West Midlands Railway, both of which operate services through Hereford, have announced cancellations on January 10.\n<\/p>\n<p>  West Midlands Railway<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>No trains between Shrewsbury and Birmingham New Street (until the end of today)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  Following severe weather the line between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton is closed. Rail replacement transport is operating in both directions between Shrewsbury and Birmingham New Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>No trains between Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley \/ Rugeley Trent Valley (until approximately 10am)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  Urgent repairs to the track are required between Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley \/ Rugeley Trent Valley and as a result all lines are currently closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Rail replacement transport is operating between Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield Trent Valley, and also between Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley, until approximately 9am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You can use your ticket on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalexpress.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"sc-58ae7d72-0 cSWjeJ\">National Express<\/a> bus routes between Birmingham New Street and Sutton Coldfield, and also between Birmingham New Street and Walsall in both directions, until midday.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Transport for Wales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <strong>No trains between Birmingham International and Shrewsbury<\/strong>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <strong>No trains between Shrewsbury and Swansea (via Heart of Wales line)<\/strong>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <strong>Disruption between Shrewsbury \/ Machynlleth and Aberystwyth<\/strong>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <strong>Disruption between Shrewsbury \/ Machnylleth and Pwllheli<\/strong>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  To assist you with your journey, you can use your ticket on Avanti West Coast services between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton, at no extra cost.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Road replacement transport will run between Birmingham International and Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Services for operators Transport for Wales and West Midlands Railway, both of which operate services through Hereford, have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686491","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\/115870225115164911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686491","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=686491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}