{"id":963540,"date":"2026-05-16T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/963540\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:40:15","slug":"west-midlands-rail-timetable-changes-and-how-they-affect-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/963540\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands rail timetable changes and how they affect you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first time, people will be able to travel directly between Walsall and London Euston on weekdays on London Northwestern Railway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be a direct service each way, one starting from Walsall at 05:46 and the other, the 18:26 Euston to Birmingham New Street, will arrive at Walsall at 21:16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Sunday&#8217;s new timetable, the company will also have two extra later services between New Street and Liverpool Lime Street on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Railway&#8217;s weekday 05:28 New Street to Lichfield Trent Valley Cross City service will call at more stations and some weekend morning services are being introduced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CrossCountry Trains will have another PM peak service calling at Crewe on weekdays and the company has also highlighted extra journeys between Reading and Newcastle in the north-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Transport for Wales&#8217; New Street to north Wales services every two hours, including from Birmingham International, will operate to and from Llandudno Junction, not Holyhead, under the changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Avanti West Coast&#8217;s new services include the 20:47 New Street to Euston on weekdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Changes have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalrail.co.uk\/travel-information\/timetable-changes\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summarised on the National Rail website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, people will be able to travel directly between Walsall and London Euston on weekdays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-963540","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\/116583598126052083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963540","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=963540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}