{"id":809830,"date":"2026-03-07T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/809830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:53:13","slug":"major-train-disruption-as-rail-lines-closed-between-wolverhampton-and-birmingham-new-street-advice-on-alternative-travel-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/809830\/","title":{"rendered":"Major train disruption as rail lines closed between Wolverhampton and Birmingham New street &#8211; advice on alternative travel here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/disruptions.tfwm.org.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transport for West Midlands <\/a>has announced major disruption to train travel today (Saturday) as all rail lines between Sandwell &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/dudley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dudley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/expressandstar.com\/news\/transport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham New Street<\/a> are closed.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the disruption is in order for engineering work to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the list of train services disrupted:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avanti West Coast:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Services between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton will be retimed and diverted via Bescot Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Some services between Wolverhampton and Liverpool Lime Street \/ Manchester Piccadilly may be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Rail replacement buses will operate between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CrossCountry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No CrossCountry trains will call at Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can use your ticket at no extra cost on alternative rail services between Birmingham New Street and Stafford.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Train services between Birmingham New Street and Liverpool Lime Street will run to an amended timetable at a reduced level of frequency and will not call at Smethwick Galton Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Trains between Walsall and Wolverhampton will run between Walsall and Birmingham New Street only.<\/p>\n<p>Train services between Birmingham New Street and Shrewsbury will run between Tipton and Shrewsbury only (to an amended timetable at a reduced level of frequency) and will call additionally at Coseley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rail replacement buses will operate between:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham New Street and Tipton also calling at Smethwick Rolfe Street, Smethwick Galton Bridge, Sandwell &amp; Dudley and Dudley Port<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton<\/strong><strong>Transport for Wales:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Transport for Wales services will operate between Birmingham International \/ Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are advised you can use your ticket at no extra cost on West Midlands Railway rail replacement buses between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you been caught up in the disruption to the train services between Wolverhampton and Birmingham &#8211; tell us about your experiences in the comments \ud83d\ude00<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transport for West Midlands has announced major disruption to train travel today (Saturday) as all rail lines between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,1354,393,4884,379,12,12608,1263,16,15,4349],"class_list":["post-809830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-dudley","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-local-hubs","tag-news","tag-sandwell","tag-transport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wolverhampton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116187287411041423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809830","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=809830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}