Dudley Regeneration

Castle Hill, Dudley

Ends: 23 March 2025

Last updated: 18 February 2025

What’s happening?

Work is happening in Dudley to improve the town centre. During these works, the way you travel around the region will be different.

These works will happen in stages to minimise disruption, and will include:

The Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension, which will see the first phase delivered to Dudley in autumn 2025.
A new transport hub
Redevelopment of the Portersfield area of Dudley town centre
Road improvements

Find out more about the Dudley regeneration work.

Castle Hill, Dudley

There will be a closure on Castle Hill from the junction of Castle Gate Island to the junction of Castle Street towards Dudley town centre from Monday 17 February until Sunday 23 March for planned works.

Left turn from Trindle Road to Castle Hill will also be prohibited. No access to the town centre via Trindle Road.

All vehicles towards Dudley town centre (Westbound) will be diverted via Tipton Road, Birmingham New Road, Priory Road and The Broadway.

Off peak lane closures on Duncan Edwards Way will be suspended from 16 February. Dudley town centre can be accessed via Flood Street and New Mill Street.

The following bus services towards the temporary interchange will be on a diversion:

National Express West Midlands (Black Country): Services 1, 7, 11, 11A, 12, 12A, 19, 74, 87, 126 and X8.

Diamond: Services 14, 14A, 25, 215 and 229.

During this period, the following services will need to use alternate stands at temporary interchange due to being diverted:

NXWM 74 to Birmingham
NXWM 1 to Wolverhampton
NXWM 11/11a to Walsall
NXWM 87 to Birmingham

For detailed information for the bus diversion, please click here

Outbound services will be operating as usual.

Travel tips

You will still be able to get to where you need to go, but consider the following:

Please plan ahead. You will be able to go where you need to go but your journey may take longer.

Please allow extra time. There are bus route diversions in place and traffic may be busier in certain areas of Dudley. Check bus timetables and plan ahead to keep moving. Your journey or connecting stop maybe a further walk away

Traffic will be busier than usual. A diversion will be in place via Tipton Road, Birmingham New Road, Priory Road and The Broadway.

Plan in advance. If you are travelling by car, consider using an alternative route to avoid the disruption completely, for real time traffic updates follow @wmroads on X.

Consider active travel. For shorter journeys, you could walk or cycle to your destination.