West Midlands Railway

[Ian Hardy]

Below is a link to Real Time Trains showing the trains from Birmingham New Street calling at Birmingham International between 18:30 & 00:30 on Sunday evening:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:BHM/to/gb-nr:BHI/2021-07-11/1830-0030?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt
There were no shuttles to Birmingham International scheduled to run last evening.

This is the link for next Sunday and there are no shuttles to BHI either:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:BHM/to/gb-nr:BHI/2021-07-18/1830-0030?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

[Tony]

Below is a link to Real Time Trains showing the trains from Birmingham New Street calling at Birmingham International between 18:30 & 00:30 on Sunday evening:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:BHM/to/gb-nr:BHI/2021-07-11/1830-0030?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt
There were no shuttles to Birmingham International scheduled to run last evening.

This is the link for next Sunday and there are no shuttles to BHI either:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:BHM/to/gb-nr:BHI/2021-07-18/1830-0030?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

There never is on a Sunday evening. The xx13 always does all stations

[Dom]

There never is on a Sunday evening. The xx13 always does all stations

There's no international shuttles on a Sunday at all. There's a couple one way BHI-BHM but that's only to collect stabled units.

[B61 ANDREW]

 WMT have announced a "revised" / reduced service on Snow Hill lines from today. It would appear that although they now have additional rolling stock , an increased number of staff are getting a C19 ping.   

[JoNi]

Whilst at Jewellary Quarter a train from Dorridge being short tripped to Rowley Regis was formed Chiltern Trains liveried 172102 coupled to 3 car WMT 172.

[WMT3000]

Hardly any trains on the Dorridge line again today. Nothing from Acocks Green, for example, towards Birmingham between 0940 and 1123! It's about time something was done about this farce. The management of this franchise is nothing short of pathetic.

[Trident 4194]

Hardly any trains on the Dorridge line again today. Nothing from Acocks Green, for example, towards Birmingham between 0940 and 1123! It's about time something was done about this farce. The management of this franchise is nothing short of pathetic.

I don't know how they are getting away with it. They are meant to have put forward a new timetable which means the amount of services cancelled is reduced. The Shrewsbury new street services seem to have loads of cancelled services too, and these services are every 30 minutes.

[mikestone]

The faster Shrewsbury services have mostly been suspended since Covid first struck.

[Sh4318]

I don't know how they are getting away with it. They are meant to have put forward a new timetable which means the amount of services cancelled is reduced. The Shrewsbury new street services seem to have loads of cancelled services too, and these services are every 30 minutes.

Certainly seems like the Shrewsbury and Snow Hill lines are the worst affected. I'm boycotting both of them until West Midlands Railway get themselves in order

[stephen ford]

WMR are completely unreliable, caught the 18:33 of cradley heath last night to go to Bordesley for the blues match, it was 20 minutes late got to snow hill it was cancelled no explanation was given the next one was 30 late. Walked to Moor Street no buses around so had to get a taxi arrived in ground 20:02.will be driving next time, trains have be come to unpredictable rant over.

[ellspurs]

WMR are completely unreliable, caught the 18:33 of cradley heath last night to go to Bordesley for the blues match, it was 20 minutes late got to snow hill it was cancelled no explanation was given the next one was 30 late. Walked to Moor Street no buses around so had to get a taxi arrived in ground 20:02.will be driving next time, trains have be come to unpredictable rant over.

This response is quite apt given the discussions over traffic around the West Brom ground in the late journeys thread. The trains are struggling, pushing people into using cars. Meanwhile there are advertisements everywhere trying to woo people back onto the trains. If the above is the experience they are going to get, then more people will be driving and adding to the traffic issues.

[D10]

This response is quite apt given the discussions over traffic around the West Brom ground in the late journeys thread. The trains are struggling, pushing people into using cars. Meanwhile there are advertisements everywhere trying to woo people back onto the trains. If the above is the experience they are going to get, then more people will be driving and adding to the traffic issues.

Yes, good points.

I had to laugh that they asked the BBC to go to Snow Hill yesterday morning to launch the campaign given the awful service now on the Snow Hill lines. There were numerous cancellations this afternoon, up to 3 trains in a row were cancelled on the Stourbridge line which must have been fun with WBA playing at home.

Even when things are "normal" now the service is bad. I caught a peak hour train on Wednesday afternoon, and it was only 3 carriages in length and full and standing, why do they think people want to put up with that given that a lot of people now have the choice to work from home.

[the trainbasher]

Tbf I used WMR last Sunday and the only problems I noticed was with a few WMR ex Londons (there again leaving WFJ I must admit the Avanti I used was quite fast, ended up in RUG 5 up!). Snow Hill was running to time and 5 car on the journey I used

[Justin Tyme]

Unfortunately WMR's current slogan "Ready when you're ready" isn't appropriate at this time.

Reliability has got to get better before confidence to travel regularly will return.

[Westy]

Unfortunately WMR's current slogan "Ready when you're ready" isn't appropriate at this time.

Reliability has got to get better before confidence to travel regularly will return.

So the slogan should be 'NOT ready when you're ready'?

Under normal circumstances, the bus companies should be cleaning up, but with Covid affecting their staffing levels, I guess not?