{"id":959064,"date":"2026-05-14T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959064\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:25:23","slug":"major-disruption-to-west-midlands-rail-network-after-points-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959064\/","title":{"rendered":"Major disruption to West Midlands rail network after points failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Trains are being delayed and cancelled due to a points failure between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Rail said the fault meant lines would be blocked, with disruption expected to last until the end of Thursday, affecting West Midlands Railway and Transport for Wales services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trains are unable to run between Shrewsbury and Birmingham International as a result of the failure, and an hourly rail replacement shuttle has been organised to run between Shrewsbury, Wellington, Telford Central and Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On other parts of the network, passengers were advised of delays of up to 30 minutes, as well as some revisions to services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trains are being delayed and cancelled due to a points failure between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton. National Rail said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-959064","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959064","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=959064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}