Trains Back on the Tracks!

My puny efforts to get passenger trains and stations reinstated on 38 miles of existing, double track rail lines in Birmingham and the Black Country. Some, such as the Stourbridge, Dudley, Walsall rail line has its middle section reserved for trams that forever prevent passenger trains returning.

Friday, 20 June 2025

Please tell me what you think, here - criticism, feedback, suggestions welcomed!

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Were there any aspects of the WM-Net Zero Annual Event that you found especially useful? "The two presentations from Naomi and Alex, wi...

This also applies to Metro

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The project has already suffered repeated delays and soaring costs despite being scaled back. Housing and planning minister Matthew Pennycoo...
Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Metro is our HS2 fiasco - Radio 4 'Today' this morning!

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Dear Laura and Anne and Richard are responsible for our own regional transport tragedy Eastside Metro is duplicating the abandoned 1980s/90s...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

to Jane Haynes

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PHOTOS I've been forgetting to send you: View of M6 Toll railway bridge from below with my last decade's banner (it did not last lon...
Monday, 16 June 2025

"Not by might, nor by power but by my spirit, saith the Lord God."

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The Jews who survived a Christian nation's attempt to exterminate them, used terrorism and massacres to win and hold the land of another...

Jane Haynes on tram extensions

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Hi Tim I am just writing a piece about the Digbeth tram line - where costs have rocketed to £352m from £227m in just four years, and it stil...

E Brum & Solihull tram extension - Jane Haynes

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READ MORE:  £1 bn tram plan for Blues, NEC, HS2 and Birmingham Airport unveiled that will 'change lives' https://www.birminghammail....
Monday, 9 June 2025

Factually correct evidence is dismissed as "an opinion"!

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D ​ear friends Dismissed as "an opinion" by your 'Good Governance' experts, no less! Over the decades, I believe I have un...
Saturday, 7 June 2025

to my very own Cllr Tom

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Dear Tom This thought has just occurred to me:- To what extent has persecution of the Jews over many centuries, culminating in the Holocaust...

YES to expelling Gazans from Gaza

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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans/0000...

For Abercynafon meet up on 11June 2025

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  Eighteen years after our 1896 exuberant and triumphalist hymn was published all about a "kingdom of love and light", and of sing...
Thursday, 5 June 2025

£2.4 billion for trams "to change lives in one of the most deprived parts of this region."

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 " ...  we have been able to put the money into our frontline public services but crucially more investment money. "As a result to...
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Are you on the side of the angels?

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Tom, You are my elected representative. It would be nice to get a reply, my friend. This time? Is it reasonable to insist that Hamas must fi...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Chris Baines for Daniels Land opinion?

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Would Chris Baines meet me at Merry Hill Shopping Centre for me to show him Daniels Land that might be an SSSI, such is its isolation from h...

"OCTOPUS: RECOMMENDED BY 'WHICH' EIGHT YEARS RUNNING"

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"OCTOPUS: RECOMMENDED BY 'WHICH' EIGHT YEARS RUNNING" (bright, cheerful, cheeky Global Player advert!) My long list of que...

John Ch

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Dear John I'm writing to you, again because your knowledge and eloquence in arguing our case is a huge asset for us Climate activists.  ...

WMCA is causing Climate catastrophe by ...

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Allowing congested main roads near or alongside existing but unused/partly used railway lines . Popular Stourbridge Junction but its second ...
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Tim Weller
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One happy old man climbing 1,000 major hills in the UK and planting 1,000 trees - both since 1980 and now achieved but continuing! Full-time cycle commuter since October 2003. My family of six bikes; four humans with four full driving licences; three vacuum cleaners; one pet rat; and, ONE 12.5 year old car.
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