West Midlands Railway

[JoNi]

Just zoomed from New Street to Coventry calling only at Marsden Green and International on class 323 which started from Bromsgrove. Must be one of very few workings left to Coventry.

[mikestone]

Mon-Fri 21.14, 23.14 and 23.54 from New St and 22.12 back - the other two sets return empty to form an early morning Bromsgrove.

[Rob H]

170634 was deputising for a 323 on New Street-International Shuttle today.

[Bob]

Glad im not on the last Birmingham to Cannock train tonight...the one at 10.17 ish was 20 mins delayed cos it was rammed and full of drunk idiots with the police called and the 23.19 still showing delayed now....why do they think 2 carriages is even acceptable? Can they not shove 153s on on a Sat???

[Sh4318]

Glad im not on the last Birmingham to Cannock train tonight...the one at 10.17 ish was 20 mins delayed cos it was rammed and full of drunk idiots with the police called and the 23.19 still showing delayed now....why do they think 2 carriages is even acceptable? Can they not shove 153s on on a Sat???

153s are only used on branch lines on weekends. I'm not sure if you're on Twitter or not, but you'd probably be better off directing your concerns towards West Midlands Railway, rather than a bus forum

[Bob]

153s are only used on branch lines on weekends. I'm not sure if you're on Twitter or not, but you'd probably be better off directing your concerns towards West Midlands Railway, rather than a bus forum

Well its a railway thread...

[Bob]

The 11.19 last train from brum got to hednesford 45 mins late!

[Solo1]

*NEW* Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident near the railway between #Northampton and Birmingham #NewStreet the line is blocked.
Train services running through these stations will be subject to  delays, cancellations and amendment until further notice.

[Solo1]

Services between Birmingham New Street and London Euston will terminate and originate from Birmingham International with no stations between International and New Street served until further notice. Please listen to station announcements

https://t.co/xHumHPSJwe

[Tony]

323216 has gone to Liverpool this morning, quite a rare working nowadays. It will do the 12:34 Liverpool-Birmingham

[Bob]

323216 has gone to Liverpool this morning, quite a rare working nowadays. It will do the 12:34 Liverpool-Birmingham

Does anyone know what the future holds for the 323s?

[Sh4318]

Well its a railway thread...

...it's also the equivalent of p*ssing into the wind, no-one can solve your issue here, you're essentially arguing with a brick wall

Does anyone know what the future holds for the 323s?

Rumoured to be going to Northern

[mikestone]

The expectation was always for Northern sets to come to WMT, rather than v.v., but neither replacement TOC included them in future plans, and with so many other units of classes in use elsewhere becoming surplus anything other than scrap seems highly unlikely.

[Bob]

...it's also the equivalent of p*ssing into the wind, no-one can solve your issue here, you're essentially arguing with a brick wall

Is the thread about very late running bus services that gets commented on regularly the same in your opinion then?

And also occasionally know the reasons for things such as the above on here so....

[The Real 4778]

The expectation was always for Northern sets to come to WMT, rather than v.v., but neither replacement TOC included them in future plans, and with so many other units of classes in use elsewhere becoming surplus anything other than scrap seems highly unlikely.

Bidders for Northern were not permitted to include 323s after 2019, because their owners (wrongly) gambled that the whole fleet had a future in the West Midlands.  That went well for them, didn't it!  Now of course, there may be opportunity for dialogue on
a rather different commercial footing!!!