Special traffic arrangements planned for air show
Measures are being put in place to help thousands of visitors get to the RAF Cosford Air Show next Sunday.
The organisers have said they expect a crowd of more than 50,000 people again, with many of them due to arrive by car and more by train.
National Highways said it expected the M54 and the area around the show to be busy, and it would open the hard shoulder around junctions two and three to cope with the extra traffic.
West Midlands Railway said it planned to put on extra trains to take people in and out of Cosford station.
Highlights at the show this year include a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight along with aerial displays by the Typhoon, Chinook, Airbus A330 and a Great War Display team.
The air show has advised people to allow extra time for their journey.
National Highways said the relaxing of the restrictions on the M54 would mean traffic could use the hard shoulder adjacent to the westbound carriageway of the M54 from its junction with the entry slip road at junction two, to its junction with the exit slip road at junction three.
This will be between 07:00 BST and 14:00 BST on 8 June.
It said there would also be traffic management on the slip roads and around the roundabout at junction three to help keep traffic flowing during the event.
West Midlands Railway advised the early morning services into Cosford and the ones leaving after 17:00 were likely to be busy and were often full.
It said it would have queuing systems in place for passengers trying to get on trains at Cosford and Wolverhampton.
Because of the one-way restrictions around the air show, it said taxis would be unable to drop off or pick up at the station.
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