Lines reopened: major disruption in the Birmingham New Street area 

Route(s) affected

Avanti West Coast between London Euston and Birmingham New Street / Wolverhampton / Crewe / Preston / Blackpool North / Glasgow Central / Edinburgh

CrossCountry between Plymouth and Leeds / York / Edinburgh, between Bournemouth / Southampton Central / Bristol Temple Meads and Manchester Piccadilly, between Reading and York / Newcastle, between Cardiff Central and Nottingham, and also between Birmingham New Street and Leicester / Nottingham / Cambridge / Stansted Airport

London Northwestern Railway between London Euston and Birmingham New Street, and also between Birmingham New Street and Liverpool Lime Street

Transport for Wales between Birmingham International and Chester / Holyhead / Aberystwyth

West Midlands Railway between Hereford / Great Malvern and Birmingham New Street, between Redditch and Four Oaks, between Bromsgrove and Lichfield Trent Valley, between Birmingham International and Rugeley Trent Valley, between Birmingham New Street and Shrewsbury, and also between Walsall and Wolverhampton

Description

Trains are able to run normally following an object caught on the overhead electric wires between Sandwell & Dudley and Smethwick Galton Bridge and an earlier incident involving a trespasser in the Birmingham New Street area.