The West Area at the CERN SPS has recently been rebuilt to provide two versatile secondary and/or tertiary test beams, the X5 and X7, which each have been upgraded to a top momentum of 250 GeV/c. In this note we describe the design, operational modes and performance of these new West Area beams.This is a revision of a previous report CERN SL-99-013 EA, updated following the displacement of the T1 primary target
