{"id":254540,"date":"2025-07-21T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/railuk.com\/?p=180098"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:44:00","slug":"journey-changes-between-birmingham-and-london-marylebone-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=254540","title":{"rendered":"Journey changes between Birmingham and London Marylebone tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/railuk.com\/general-interest\/journey-changes-between-birmingham-and-london-marylebone-tomorrow\/\" title=\"Journey changes between Birmingham and London Marylebone tomorrow\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"485\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/21100833\/chiltern-485x360.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/21100833\/chiltern-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/21100833\/chiltern-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passengers planning to travel between Birmingham and London Marylebone tomorrow are being warned of changes to services while engineering upgrades take place.<\/p>\n<p>The work, which will help provide better and more reliable journeys for passengers and freight services, means the Chiltern main line will be closed between Warwick Parkway and Solihull tomorrow (Sunday 20 July) until 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>The vital work will predominantly affect Chiltern Railways services and journeys will take longer than usual with rail replacement bus services in operation. Buses will run in both directions between Warwick Parkway and Solihull until 4pm on Sunday 20 July.<\/p>\n<p>Network Rail\u2019s teams will be carrying out track work and level crossing maintenance in the Dorridge area, to help keep the railway safe for the passenger and freight services which use the line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Gaskin, programme director for Network Rail Central route, said:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI am sorry for the disruption caused while we complete this essential track work and maintenance. We know there is never a good time to close the railway but this work has been carefully planned to keep disruption to a minimum while delivering the most future benefits for passengers and freight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you&#8217;re planning to travel, please plan ahead and check before you travel for the latest journey information and travel advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Stewart, commercial and customer strategy director at Chiltern Railways, said:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI would like to thank customers for their patience while these works are being carried out by Network Rail which will make sure the railway is more reliable and safer for customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease check your journeys in advance if you are travelling in the affected areas on Sunday as they will be subject to disruption and may involve a rail replacement bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Passengers should check\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feu-west-1.protection.sophos.com%2F%3Fd%3Dnationalrail.co.uk%26u%3DaHR0cDovL3d3dy5uYXRpb25hbHJhaWwuY28udWsv%26i%3DNjY1ZjJjNDlkYWUzZGM3MDczMDNkYzY2%26t%3DMjB0ZHQ0SXh3blB6aTRJUzg1MG9NY3BLT1hoVWxObHlhYW5iQ1FKUHVNMD0%3D%26h%3Df1dce2e14caa481daa0b1ed508395bd4%26s%3DAVNPUEhUT0NFTkNSWVBUSVbL33HuNDAQncWWdnHlgg_2GV_1Wx03xC77_TLFRNuh12c2AH_cBg4_C6cOuUrBNPw&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csophie.dangerfield%40networkrail.co.uk%7C085ba1782eb44c444e5a08dd6d3ea3bd%7Cc22cc3e15d7f4f4dbe03d5a158cc9409%7C0%7C0%7C638786837976213669%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=PUwqBz%2BlybHIdRuKlpDgnir9d6Ts75lncEe%2BtDdRgNc%3D&amp;reserved=0\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.nationalrail.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or with Chiltern Railways for the latest journey information and travel advice.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Network Rail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/railuk.com\/general-interest\/journey-changes-between-birmingham-and-london-marylebone-tomorrow\/\" title=\"Journey changes between Birmingham and London Marylebone tomorrow\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/21100833\/chiltern-485x360.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"><\/a>Passengers planning to travel between Birmingham and London Marylebone tomorrow are being warned of changes to services while engineering upgrades take place. The work, which will help provide better and more reliable journeys for passengers and freight services, means the Chiltern main line will be closed between Warwick Parkway and Solihull tomorrow (Sunday 20 July) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16013,47,913,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","category-rail-news","category-travel","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254570,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254540\/revisions\/254570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}