{"id":968101,"date":"2026-05-18T05:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/968101\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:54:14","slug":"west-midland-railway-passengers-warned-of-strike-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/968101\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midland Railway passengers warned of strike disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rail passengers in parts of the West Midlands are advised to only travel if necessary later this week during two days of planned strikes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The walkout will affect West Midlands Railway&#8217;s (WMR) services in Birmingham and the Black Country, Wolverhampton, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire on 22 and 23 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The operator said &#8220;a very limited service&#8221; would be running because of the action, which has been organised by members of the TSAA trade union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managing director Ian McConnell said: &#8220;We encourage TSSA to continue talks with us to reach a resolution to this dispute.&#8221; The BBC has also approached the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail passengers in parts of the West Midlands are advised to only travel if necessary later this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":968102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-968101","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\/116594033943510279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968101","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=968101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}