Does anyone agree with me that the 120 Kms Black Country mainline Railway aka S Staffs railway, from Worcester to Derby, should be finished with trains and stations instead of the Walsall cycle-walkway, on the line, being extended from Brownhills to Lichfield?
We have been spending the last 50 years turning our closed railway lines into everything but the kitchen sink. The 120 Kms between Worcester and Derby via Walsall is vital for freight trains to take the pressure off Brum lines and Grand Central for when the Camp Hill line reopens to commuter trains. Passenger trains on our wasted line are vital to take the pressure off the normally clogged M5/M6. EVERY crossing is built to cross the two motorways and many main roads and canals. But still no trains! Less than £200 million to finish the full 120 Kms, instead of half a billion to shuttle passengers on the shuttle tram between the two sections totaling 64 Kms. The Great Transport Competition says £120 m between Walsall and Stourbridge for passenger and freight trains.
I don't want a single vote - not even mine - honest! I'm being positive, constructive and helpful to the 'experts' and real politicians as to how they can cut greenhouse gases, congestion and lessen the Climate, Ecological and Nature emergency. Just as David Attenborough thinks would be a very good idea, indeed!
EVERY crossing is built to cross the two motorways and many main roads and canals with freight and passenger trains. But still no trains! What they are doing, instead, is rather like putting London tube trains on the London to Paris Eurostar HS1 line. The epitomy of absurdity. More info from timweller1@gmail.com
It is difficult to run freight trains at night between Stourbridge and Burton on Trent when 2 Kms of the 56 Kms is a Very Light Rail test track and Innovation Centre. This is at Dudley Castle Hill where the former railway station site is being used to prevent passenger and freight trains to make Dudley the largest town in the UK without a railway station!
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