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Latest Festive Period Travel Update

December 24, 2023
    Bus

    Christmas Eve – Sunday service with earlier finish approx. 22:30

    Christmas Day – No service

    Boxing Day – A near Sunday daytime service will be provided on Boxing Day with some more busy services also having some evening journeys.

    Some of the quieter services will not operate at all and a special service will operate on the Coventry area bus services.

    Wednesday 27 December to Saturday 30 December – Saturday service

    New Year’s Eve – Sunday service

    New Year’s Day – Sunday service. A special service will operate on the Coventry area bus services.

    Tuesday 2 January to Friday 5 January – modified (holiday) weekday service

     

    Train

    Christmas Eve – Last trains (by route)

    Birmingham – Wolverhampton 

    • 18:11 – Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton (17:32 Walsall)
    • 18:18 – Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street (all stations)
    • 18:57 – Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street (17:33 Liverpool)

    Cross City (Lichfield – Birmingham – Redditch/Bromsgrove)

    • 16:57 – Redditch to Lichfield City
    • 17:05 – Lichfield City to Redditch
    • 17:27 – Redditch to Four Oaks
    • 18:03 – Birmingham New Street to Bromsgrove
    • 18:27 – Redditch to Birmingham New Street
    • 18:35 – Lichfield City to Birmingham New Street
    • 18:42 – Bromsgrove to Birmingham New Street

    Birmingham – Rugeley

    • 16:45 – Birmingham New Street to Rugeley Trent Valley (16:21 Birmingham International)
    • 17:50 – Rugeley Trent Valley to Birmingham New Street
    • 18:00 – Birmingham New Street to Walsall (17:18 Wolverhampton)
    • 18:32 – Walsall to Birmingham New Street

    Snow Hill

    • 16:26 – Worcester Foregate Street to Stratford-upon-Avon
    • 17:26 – Stourbridge Junction to Dorridge
    • 17:26 – Stratford-upon-Avon to Worcester Shrub Hill
    • 17:27 – Dorridge to Stourbridge Junction
    • 18:26 – Worcester Foregate Street to Birmingham Moor Street
    • 18:26 – Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham Snow Hill
    • 18:27 – Dorridge to Birmingham Snow Hill
    • 16:40 – Leamington Spa to Nuneaton
    • 17:37 – Nuneaton to Leamington Spa
    • 17:40 – Leamington Spa to Coventry
    • 16:56 – Hereford to Birmingham New Street
    • 18:00 – Birmingham New Street to Hereford
    • 19:00 – Birmingham New Street to Worcester Shrub Hill
    • 19:56 – Hereford to Worcester Shrub Hill
    • 17:40 – Shrewsbury to Birmingham New Street
    • 17:56 – Birmingham New Street to Shrewsbury
    • 19:55 – Stourbridge Junction to Stourbridge Town
    • 20:00 – Stourbridge Town to Stourbridge Junction
    • 16:06 – Birmingham New Street to London Euston (17:15 Northampton)
    • 16:52 – Milton Keynes Central to London Euston (all stations)
    • 16:56 – London Euston to Birmingham New Street
    • 17:06 – Birmingham New Street to Milton Keynes Central (18:08 Northampton)
    • 17:21 – Birmingham International to Birmingham New Street (all stations)
    • 17:33 – Birmingham New Street to Northampton
    • 17:52 – London Euston to Milton Keynes Central (all stations)
    • 17:56 – London Euston to Northampton
    • 18:08 – Northampton to Milton Keynes Central
    • 18:34 – Birmingham New Street to Coventry
    • 18:36 – London Euston to Bletchley

    Christmas Day – No service

    Boxing Day – No service

     

     

    • The last departure from Birmingham – Hednesford on weekday evenings (23:22) will be extended to run to Rugeley Trent Valley, providing a later service to Rugeley Trent Valley.
    • Longer trains will be provided to ease congestion to services on the Snow Hill line.
    • Service to Earlswood will run later on Sundays.

     

    Tram
    • Christmas Day – No service
    • Boxing Day – Sunday service
    • New Years Day – Sunday service
    • Tuesday 2 January 2024 – Normal service resumes

     

    Source: TfWM

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