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🐈⬛ Meet Betty! Sutton Coldfield's new Junior Mouse Catcher, and WMR's second official station cat, joining George @TheStourbridge Station Cat.
🐾 Once a stray raising three kittens, she was adopted by Folklore Coffee owner Alex, and now on the payroll full-time.
ALT Folklore Coffee and Bagel owner, Alex, with Betty - Sutton Coldfield's Junior Mouse Catcher and platform attendant
ALT WMR's newest feline em-paw-ee: Betty - Junior Mouse Catcher
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Further to our post yesterday about our Biodiversity work at the station, today me and Scott have had a look and identified the wild plants and trees along the ramp to Platform 1. It's great to have such a variety and something we take for granted.
@WMR_Community @WestMidRailway
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🫱🏼🫲🏼 United by what we share. Strengthened by what makes us different.
This South Asian Heritage Month, colleagues share what "Unity in Diversity" means to them
🧡 "We create a workplace where everyone belongs, contributes and thrives"
Have a read: orlo.uk/cv9FO
ALT South Asian Heritage Month 2026 - Unity in Diversity
ALT South Asian Heritage Month 2026 - Unity in Diversity, Ajay
ALT South Asian Heritage Month 2026 - Unity in Diversity, Saif
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🟢 The TSSA industrial action which had been scheduled to take place on Friday 31 July and Saturday 1 August has been suspended.
🚅 A full West Midlands Railway service will now run to the normal timetable on both days
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⚽ Called Jude? Fancy a free trip on the Stourbridge Town Car?
🚅 WMR is celebrating England’s quarter-final triumph by offering free train travel on the Stourbridge Shuttle
📱 Anyone with the forename Jude with valid ID can score the free fare on the line. Valid 13-19th July
ALT Jude Bellingham in an England football kit performing his signature arms-outstretched celebration in front of a tram.
ALT Promotional graphic from West Midlands Railway offering free travel on the Stourbridge Shuttle for anyone named Jude.
Settling in with our amazing Station Adopters at this years Community Rail Awards 2026
#CRA26
Northfield Station and Longbridge Station have been adopted by Baskerville School. It was great to see support from Councillor Esther Rai and local community groups. The pupils and Lead Adopters are planning projects such as planting and artwork to take place early 2026.
#Shirley is through to the grand final of this year's @RailDeliveryGrp #WorldCupOfStations - thanks to the heartwarming tale of Wendy & her 50+ year marriage, which came about after a brief encounter style romance on the platforms 💜
#WeLoveWendy
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Community Rail Conference 2025.
Useful discussions, sharing and learning ideas and question time. "When you focus on people you do everything differently."
Important reminder to take care at level crossings 🦺
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🎤 Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy!
🦇 It’s @BlackSabbath week and I am ready!
🐂 I’ve new signs so you don’t confuse me with the real @OzzyOsbourne who is in town!
📸 Take your photo with me and check out the awesome Black Sabbath mural, now signed by the band
#BackToTheBeginning
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☀️ It's going to be a scorcher today and tomorrow!
Please remember some top tips:
🧴 Carry a bottle of water with you (+ a spare, sealed bottle)
🥵 Feeling ill? Don't press the alarm - leave the train at the next stop
🧑💼 Staff are on hand to assist onboard and at stations
New Station Adopters "Mencap on the Rails" have been busy planting at Selly Oak. The interns are thrilled with the bloom☺️
@WestMidRailway
@mencap_charity
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Better transport can:
🚆 connect communities and bring people together
🏙️ revitalise local areas
🏃 improve our health and wellbeing
☀️ clean up our air and tackle climate change.
#BetterTransportWeek: celebrating the connections that matter
@CBTransport
ALT Taking the train instead of driving can save the same amount of carbon emissions as boiling a kettle 455 times.
Students from Woodrush High School were planting at Wythall Train station, making a positive difference at their community.
Another day another great #CommunityRailWeek event.
We joined @NetworkRailCML @chilternrailway and our Station Adopters at Stratford Upon Avon this morning to bring the bard to the Shakespeare Line.
Thanks to the pupils from King Edward VI for their brilliant performance
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🎭Platform 2b or not 2b....
👁️Have you spotted Shakespeare on your travels yet?
🚉'All the world's a stage' according to Shakespeare and now so is the route between Birmingham Moor Street and Stratford-upon Avon with statues installed at each station
➡️gloo.to/FnuT
We are thrilled to begin #CommunityRailWeek by officially announcing our new Shifnal station adopters. We handed over our trust to this amazing group of new volunteers today. We're excited to see what they bring to the station which first opened all the way back in 1849.
