Bus, Midland Metro and rail services this Christmas and New Year: Find out timetables across the West Midlands
Shoppers, sports fans and party-goers will be able to hop on board this Christmas and New Year as bus and Midland Metro services were revealed.
A total of 158 bus services will be running on Boxing Day across the West Midlands alongside tram services between Wolverhampton and Birmingham.
Bus operator National Express West Midlands will be running a near-Sunday daytime schedule and Diamond Bus will be laying on 14 key services.
And Midland Metro trams will run a 10-15 minute service on Boxing Day.
There will be a Saturday-style service running on Wednesday, December 27, through to New Year's Eve with a Sunday schedule service on New Year's Day.
But train passengers will be hit by a series of cancellations due to rail engineering works.
Bus: Normal Sunday service by all operators but with last buses at around 11pm from city and town centres. Some operators will finish services slightly earlier than usual.
Midland Metro: Normal service.
Christmas Day
No bus, rail or tram services.
Boxing Day
Bus: National Express will operate a Sunday service between 8am and 6pm with higher frequency routes operating to their usual finish time.
However there will be seven services that usually run on a Sunday but will not be operating on Boxing Day.
Details of these are listed on the website
Diamond Buses will be running 14 services. All other companies will not be operating.
Midland Metro: Enhanced Sunday service with a 10 minute frequency between 8am and 6pm and then every 15 minutes until 11pm.
Wednesday December 27 to Saturday December 30
Bus: National Express will operate a Saturday service with some extra morning journeys. Night buses will also operate. Most other operators will run a Saturday service although some services will operate a Monday to Friday timetable.
Midland Metro: Normal service.
New Year's Eve
Bus: Operators will run a Sunday timetable but some Arriva and Stagecoach services will finish earlier than normal.
Midland Metro: Normal Service.
New Year’s Day
Bus: Most operators will run a Sunday timetable but some National Express services will finish at 6pm.
Arriva and Stagecoach will not operate any services on New Year’s Day.
Midland Metro: An enhanced Sunday service will operate a 10 minute service 8am to 6pm and then a 15 minute service to 11pm.
Train services
Passengers are being warned of changes to rail services over the festive period due to Network Rail carrying out engineering works.
This will mean a reduced service between Christmas Eve and Tuesday January 2 on most lines running through Birmingham New Street.
In particular, on Christmas Eve buses will replace West Midlands Railway trains between Birmingham New Street and Rugeley Trent Valley.
Services on the line will run to an amended timetable between December 27 and January 2.
Buses will also replace trains that call at local stations on the Birmingham to Wolverhampton line between December 27 and January 2.
On January 2, when many people will be returning to work, engineering will still be taking place on some rail routes and passengers are advised to check services before they travel at www.nationalrail.co.uk
A normal rail service is scheduled to resume on January 3.
