Thank you, Matt for your interest in this line and for the comment.
Unfortunately, out of the unfinished 56 Kms, and half used 64 Kms, the 120 Kms Worcester, Black Country, Derby mainline railway "of national strategic significance" (Network Rail and Dept for Transport in March 2018), 6.7 Kms is being given over to Metro trams and a further 2 Kms for a Very Light Rail test track. This means that the UK's last mothballed mainline will be severed by the trams and test track, instead of all 120 Kms of double track being used for commuter, regional and freight trains, with Railfuture's nine new stations.
The best we can hope for is that one day the shuttle tram, in the middle, will shuttle passengers to a reopened railway line to connect the tram at Brierley Hill to Stourbridge Jct and Worcester and, at the other end, connect the tram stop at Wednesbury to the train taking passengers on to Walsall, Lichfield and Derby.
It would have been easier and more sensible, simply to have put the trains back on the whole length of 120 Kms in one go!
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