Birmingham and the West Midlands transport today
Trains, buses, cycles and airports first, then roads, driving charges and fuel, across the West Midlands. Updated 15:34 · refreshes every few minutes
Public transporttrains, trams, buses, cycles and airports
🚊 West Midlands Metro
We have no open live feed for the tram, so we point you to the operator's own service status rather than guess.
Metro service status ›🚆 National Rail 15:29
Trains leaving each station in the next hour, and how many are on time.
| Station | Next hour | On time | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham New Street The escalators are out of order between the concourse and platform 12b at Birmingham New Street station until 9 December for essential maintenance. Alternative Routes & Step-Free Access:Red Zone Lifts: Fully operational at the B-end… | 25 | 88% | Some delays |
| Birmingham Moor Street | 14 | 93% | Good |
| Birmingham Snow Hill | 10 | 100% | Good |
| Birmingham International | 19 | 95% | Good |
| University | 13 | 100% | Good |
| Coventry | 16 | 88% | Some delays |
| Wolverhampton The gentlemen's toilets on platform 1 are out of order at Wolverhampton station. | 21 | 95% | Good |
| Walsall | 9 | 100% | Good |
| Solihull | 9 | 78% | Some delays |
Our reading of the next hour's departures: good when at least nine in ten are on time and none is cancelled; disrupted when fewer than three in four are on time or more than one is cancelled; some delays in between.
🚌 Bus disruptions 15:26
No bus disruption affecting stops in the West Midlands is published through the Department for Transport's disruptions service right now.
✈️ Birmingham Airport
Live arrivals open on each airport's own board, which is always more up to date than anything we could copy. How to get there is live from the readings above.
| Airport | Getting there now | |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham (BHX) | Good Trains to Birmingham International, then the Air-Rail Link (95% on time) | Live arrivals › |
Drivingroads, charges and fuel
🛣️ Motorway and trunk road closures 15:25
National Highways closures within 16 miles of Birmingham New Street, happening now or starting in the next 12 hours.
| Road | What | Until |
|---|---|---|
| M5 | Carriageway closures M5 southbound Jct 3 to Jct 4a carriageway closure | Fri 16 Oct |
| M5 | Carriageway closures M5 northbound Western Arm northbound to M6 link road closure | Fri 16 Oct |
| M6 | Carriageway closures M6 Southbound Jct 6 to Jct 5 carriageway closure | Fri 16 Oct |
| M6 | Other Lanes 2 and 3 closure southbound | Sun 18 Oct |
| M6 | Other Jct 11 entry slip lane 1 closure northbound | Fri 16 Oct |
| M6 TOLL | Other M42 Hard shoulder closure northbound | Tue 30 Mar |
| M42 | Carriageway closures M42 northbound Jct 2 exit slip road closure | Fri 16 Oct |
| M42 | Carriageway closures M42 southbound Jct 2 entry slip road closure | Fri 16 Oct |
and 9 more.
💷 Driving charges
What it costs to drive a car in and around West Midlands today. "Charging now" is worked out at 15:35, when this page was sent.
Birmingham Clean Air Zone
Inside the A4540 Middleway ring road, 24 hours a day, every day. Only cars that miss the standard pay: broadly, petrol older than Euro 4 and diesel older than Euro 6.
Checked: Birmingham City Council via RAC, 23 Sep 2026.
⛽ Fuel prices 15:25
333 forecourts within 16 miles of Birmingham New Street, from the government's Fuel Finder scheme; forecourts must report a price change within 30 minutes.
| Unleaded (E10) | Diesel | |
|---|---|---|
| Average here | 175.0p | 200.0p |
| UK average | 174.3p | 199.3p |
| Cheapest here | 161.7p | 181.7p |
Cheapest unleaded: Gulf B8 161.7p · Costco Wholesale B7 162.9p · Witton Road B6 165.6p · Costco Wholesale CV4 165.9p · Blakenhall Service Station WV2 167.6p. Averages are plain means of forecourt prices, not weighted by sales. Prices as of 14:25. Your street's cheapest: enter a postcode ›
Your own street
For the bus stops, trains and cheapest fuel nearest to you, open StreetOwl's dashboard with your postcode.
Enter a postcode ›National Rail departures from the Rail Data Marketplace; live board data © National Rail. Bus disruptions from the Department for Transport's Bus Open Data Service (OGL v3.0), as published by the local transport authority. National Highways closures and Fuel Finder prices under the Open Government Licence v3.0. StreetOwl is independent and is not endorsed by Transport for West Midlands.
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