Dear Don - and all of you in Railfuture who want a bigger and better railway but seem to do nothing to ever get one! Except to say 'Amen' to whatever the authorities want.
You wrote, "Longer term goals
- Reinstating the Stourbridge - Dudley - Walsall - Lichfield line to relieve heavy congestion on the existing Black Country rail & road networks.
Rome wasn't built in a day. We will get their. Donald"
That has been your stated goal in your literature for many decades, Donald. For exactly the same number of decades as you have all fully supported the break up of the same, 120 Kms mainline railway with trams on two short sections (and much else put on it, too!). Is that correct? Is that called hypocrisy, Don? RailNOfuture says one thing and does the opposite?
Is it true that you cannot possibly "get their" because I have seen no evidence that RailNOfuture has done anything to stop the only feasible site for a rebuilt Dudley Railway Station from being given over to the £28 m National Innovation Centre for VLR - that is now being built.
Not one member of RailNOfuture submitted an objection to Dudley's Development Control Committee when the planning application went before them on 17th October 2016. I was present, as Rob Mayor, BBC reporter will confirm, when the decision to use the railway station site was made. And, as a result, to ditch any hope of the mainline Dudley railway from ever being reinstated!
Dudley town will never again have a railway station. The largest town in the UK without one! It will now have a piddling little tram stop for ever and a day. And, it has to shuttle passengers on your own former and existing mainline railway to your neighbour's in Sandwell. What a joke!
Never mind. It's not the end of the world. Please learn from your mistakes. But do try and STOP destroying the remnant that remains of our railways.
Best wishes to each and every one and, my genuine concern for you all to turn over a new leaf - PLEASE!
Tim
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