West Midlands Railway

[WMT3000]

I've just read the official statement from WMR regarding today's pathetic efforts. To blame a timetable that they insisted on implementing and then tell us that they'll take the problems caused by their own incompetence into account is just beyond belief. Absolute mugs. I'd rather see managers and planners being sacked, just as they would be in the real world. Any control over the timetable should be taken out of their hands - they've already proved that they can't do it. And as for their "wholehearted apology" to passengers, I think that's a case of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

[Ginger66]

Can bus companies refused ticket acceptance when there are problems on the rail network. 

[Tony]

Can bus companies refused ticket acceptance when there are problems on the rail network.

Why. They signed a deal at the beginning of the franchise, so are happy to do so and get paid every time it is actiondd

[V89MOA]

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2019-11-01/rail-workers-set-to-strike-on-saturdays-in-november-and-december-west-midlands-trains/
More disruption to come...

[Sh4318]

The ex EMT 153s - 153310 & 153326 - are on this diagram today. If it's of interest to anyone

According to the Stourbridge Line User Group Facebook page, the following are the non-standard Monday to Friday Snow Hill line diagrams.

170/5 + 153 +153

2S10 0649 Worcester Shrub Hill to Whitlocks End
2K05 0837 Whitlocks End to Kidderminster
2C20 0955 Kidderminster to Dorridge
2K20 1109 Dorridge to Kidderminster
2S40 1225 Kidderminster to Whitlocks End
2K36 1340 Whitlocks End to Kidderminster
2C50 1455 Kidderminster to Dorridge
2K51 1609 Dorridge to Kidderminster
2S72 1725 Kidderminster to Whitlocks End
2K65 1845 Whitlocks End to Kidderminster
2C74 2005 Kidderminster to Dorridge
2V79 2118 Dorridge to Worcester Foregate Street

172/0 + 172/0

2S08 0735 Birmingham Snow Hill to Whitlocks End
2K04 0807 Whitlocks End to Kidderminster
2C18 0936 Kidderminster to Dorridge
2V20 1046 Dorridge to Worcester Foregate Street
2C36 1216 Worcester Foregate Street to Dorridge
2V32 1346 Dorridge to Worcester Shrub Hill
2C54 1517 Worcester Shrub Hill to Dorridge
2V44 1646 Dorridge to Worcester Shrub Hill
2C70 1837 Worcester Shrub Hill to Dorridge
2K75 2030 Dorridge to Kidderminster
2S90 2145 Kidderminster to Stratford-upon-Avon
2W88 2330 Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham Snow Hill

170/5 + 170/5

2C06 0630 Worcester Shrub Hill to Dorridge
2V10 0811 Dorridge to Worcester Shrub Hill
2S26 0952 Worcester Shrub Hill to Whitlocks End
2V22 1119 Whitlocks End to Worcester Shrub Hill
2C42 1317 Worcester Shrub Hill to Dorridge
2V36 1446 Dorridge to Worcester Foregate Street
2C62 1634 Worcester Foregate Street to Dorridge
2J71 1824 Dorridge to Stourbridge Junction
5J71 1939 Stourbridge Junction to Tyseley L.M.D.

[Jack D]

Will Lea Hall - London Euston be affected this weekend, Will Marston Green - Euston be affected also?

[Sh4318]

Will Lea Hall - London Euston be affected this weekend, Will Marston Green - Euston be affected also?

https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/industrialaction
https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/industrialaction

[mikestone]

Most December timetables now on website.

[Sh4318]

Most December timetables now on website.

I thought there were no longer going to be through trains to Euston on the Chase Line? There's still 1 per hour each way Monday-Saturday

[Tony]

I thought there were no longer going to be through trains to Euston on the Chase Line? There's still 1 per hour each way Monday-Saturday

They always said there would be until May 2020

[Steveminor]

Class 170 on the Birmingham international shuttles yesterday afternoon peak, first time I've seen one on there. In fact first time I've seen a DMU at lea hall since I was a kid.

[mikestone]

There has been a single  trip to International ever since May at 17.17, ECS from Tyseley and then back into New St ECS to work the 17.59 to Worcester.
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From the timetable change becomes an emu, part of the additional hourly shuttle, so anyone desperate needs to do it now.

[mikestone]

Despite initially stating no buses would replace strike bound trains at some point the website has been updated to show buses between Worcester-Kidderminster/Bromsgrove, Walsall-Rugeley and Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury as well as Stafford-Nuneaton.

[2206]

Lots of cancellations on the Dorridge - Birmingham Moor Street line earlier today, with the majority on WMR trains cancelled, for a number of hours this afternoon.
Caught an overcrowded Chiltern Service to Birmingham Moor Street, and they had loads of empty 172 trains normally on this line parked up doing nothing in the afternoon peak time at around 3PM at Tyesley (I never normally see any there when going past). Surely they should be in service, as Chiltern were still managing to operate Dorridge - Birmingham Moor Street.

[Stu]

Lots of cancellations on the Dorridge - Birmingham Moor Street line earlier today, with the majority on WMR trains cancelled.
Caught an overcrowded Chiltern Service to Birmingham Moor Street, and they had loads of empty 172 trains normally on this line parked up doing nothing in the afternoon peak time at around 3PM at Tyesley (I never normally see any there when going past). Surely they should be in service, as Chiltern were still managing to operate Dorridge - Birmingham Moor Street.

WMR and Chiltern are seperate companies. The problem isn't the lack of trains, it is the lack of staff, WMR trains can't operate by themselves.

Come on, you must read the news and know about the problems at the moment, did you really need to catch the train or could you not have caught the bus instead?