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| Smethwick metal fire halts trains out of Birmingham | Smethwick metal fire halts trains out of Birmingham |
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| Trains on a railway line out of Birmingham have been stopped due to a fire involving 200 tons of metal. | Trains on a railway line out of Birmingham have been stopped due to a fire involving 200 tons of metal. |
| West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service said they were called to the scene in Charles Street, Smethwick, at 17:05 BST where the metal was "well alight". | |
| They sent crews with 10 pumps to fight the blaze, near The Hawthorns station. | |
| London Midland tweeted there would be "no train movements permitted until [the] fire dies down" on the line running from New Street to Stourbridge. | |
| The operator said four buses had been laid on to transport passengers from Worcester Shrub Hill to Stourbridge Junction calling at all the service's usual railway stops in between. | |
| Two trains have also been brought into service to shuttle passengers between Stourbridge and Worcester Foregate Street. | |
| Midland Metro tweeted that their trams were not running between The Hawthorns and the Handsworth Booth Street stops. | |
| Dean Sattler, 31, was on his way home from work on one of the trams halted by the track-side fire at about 18:10. | |
| He saw "dark smoke" through the tram window but said other commuters were "moaning rather than panicking". | |
| West Midlands Police said they had closed Wattville Road at Alfred Street and Booth Street at Downing Street while the fire was being tackled. |