Thanks so much, Donald. You seem to be very comfortable and reassured by Tim Martin and I don't understand why!!
Is it not very peculiar that some bridges are being replaced with new to take light and heavy rail but not all of them, according to Tim Martin? Once the trams are using the bridges that are not being upgraded to take freight, how on earth can the whole Metro service be stopped for months to allow the bridges to be strengthened or replaced to take trams and freight trains?
Why is the RFG so relaxed about the 120 Kms being only available for freight at the top and bottom ends, with the middle section being made impossible by the use of trams, a test track and, even an extended cycle-walkway from Brownhills to Lichfield? The existing cycle-walkway is on the UK's last mothballed mainline from Walsall to Brownhills.
Why is the RFG not wanting to see a growth in railway freight by having the whole of the 120 Kms being used for freight?
Why do they appear to be as complacent and as apathetic and as acquiescing as everyone else at seeing yet more of their infrastructure taken off them for umpteen purposes, other than the very one that the railway lines were designed and built and used for - for over 150 years? And trams on this important freight and passenger line has been the intention since Metro was dreamt up by the West Midlands County Council in 1981, according to Wikipedia! (WMCC resurrected as WMCA)
How can freight, diverted from the Camp Hill line, be put on the Metro 6.7 Kms and on a 2 Kms test track in the middle of the 6.7 Kms? Perhaps, the freight trains will only be able to be run at night. But why complicate life for a railway industry that was barely able to cope before Covid?
This all seems complete insanity and incompetence, to me!! "They know not what they do." UK plc must be a laughing stock to our international friends.
Anyway, best wishes and thanks so much for your interest and for engaging, Don. You are a pleasure to know!
Tim
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