Is our BC Dir of Transport living in cloud cuckoo land?

Why Metro trams are just fine and dandy for our important, 120 Kms, half used, mainline railway - the UK's last to be brought back into use

The Black Country Director of Transport, Stuart Everton, wrote the following to maintain that tram trains and freight trains will, one day this century, use the Stourbridge to Walsall route:

“However, the current Wednesbury – Brierley Hill light rail proposals would not prevent the Stourbridge - Walsall route reopening for conventional freight and passenger train services in the longer term.  This can be demonstrated by the fact that shared running of trains and tram services over the same infrastructure already occurs elsewhere in Europe and is shortly to be introduced between Sheffield and Rotherham.”