Wednesday 26 May 2021

Rails for Recovery webinar by Midlands Connect

Little chance of asking a question but we can select, copy and paste into the chat column, if there is one.  You have a better chance than me because I am known to them, so get in quick!

I will copy and paste these questions.  Or, would you like to?  Or, take your pick?:
  1. A couple of years ago, why was Midlands Connect and the Black Country Chamber of Commerce united in starting a campaign for the 87 Kms Western Orbital Motorway to be built but not for the passenger and freight trains to finish the ready built but only half used, 120 Kms Worcester, Black Country, Derby mainline railway?
  2. Why no 'Rails for Recovery: Upgrading Worcester-Black Country-Derby route'?
  3. Why do you support the installation of Metro trams on our railway network?
  4. Is the railway industry competent to complicate their working lives with double running or track sharing by having trams, commuter and freight trains, tram-trains and train-trams?
  5. How does HS2 release capacity on the railway network when you will still need the existing intercity trains because HS2 stops at such few stations?
  6. Why has the common practice of running freight and passenger trains on the same lines been abandoned on 106 Kms in the West Midlands?  And for many decades, too!

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