Plans for new Perry Barr station go for approval
Plans for a new station at Perry Barr in Birmingham, first revealed in November 2019, have now been submitted to Birmingham City Council for approval…
West Midlands
New Moseley railway station receives approval
Birmingham City Council has granted planning permission for Moseley station, the third of the three proposed stations on the Camp Hill line – Moseley, Kings…
West Midlands Mayor presses PM to bring forward promised transport funding
Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to accelerate critical transport funding to help re-boot the region’s economy after…
Interim WMRE programme director to oversee new station developments
Amanda White, a former head of rail with Transport for Greater Manchester, has joined the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) as interim programme director to…
West Midlands Railway suspends services to five stations
Five West Midlands stations on the Hereford to Worcester line are to lose their West Midlands Railway train services under a new timetable being introduced…
West Midlands NHS workers can travel free on trams and buses
Midand Metro will now allow all NHS staff working in hospitals and frontline medical facilities to travel for free during the outbreak – simply by…
West Midlands: Fallen tree closes line between Lichfield and Birmingham
A fallen tree at Wylde Green has blocked the line and brought down overhead cables between Lichfield Trent Valley and Birmingham New Street. As a…
West Midlands Trains must invest £20m to improve services after breaching franchise agreement
West Midlands Trains (WMT), the company that operates West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern services, has been told by government that it must spend an…
Julian Edwards to head up West Midlands Trains
Julian Edwards, the interim managing director of East Midlands Railway for the first few months of its new franchise, has been named as the new…
West Midlands proposes re-opening disused railway lines to tackle climate change
Opening up railway lines closed for decades, expanding the Midland Metro and introducing new, faster bus routes as more environmentally friendly alternatives to using cars…