BRUM IS THE IMPORTANT ONE NOT THE BLACK COUNTRY that does not deserve a railway only a piddling little shuttle tramline!

YOU ASK:  "However do you think passenger numbers would be low with this big 'central place' missed out. So would the gain be more for freight?"

BRUM IS THE IMPORTANT ONE NOT THE BLACK COUNTRY that does not deserve a railway, only a piddling little shuttle tramline! 

MY ANSWER:

1. Our Black Country is not so small and insignificant that it is not allowed to have half a billion pounds of Metro trams!
2. Brum is very big but so is the Black Country.  Each has about 1 mill population.
3. Our Black Country is as congested and polluted as Brum
4. Dudley has already destroyed SIX of its railway lines!  The 120 Kms Black Country (Bypass Brum) Railway is the seventh and last!
5. OUR railway is already built and runs underneath congested M6 at Jct 9 Wednesbury.
6. Every bridge, tunnel, underpass and flyover is already built.
7. 'Grand Central Diesel Perfumed Underground Station Tucked Away In The Basement Of The Closed John Lewis Store' is so congested with train services that they need some train services to go through the four Black Country boroughs instead!
8. This had been known about for decades when railway passengers numbers were doubling over 25 years to 2020!
9. There are plenty of train services to the east of Brum but only one between the W coast of the UK and Brum!  That one is Crewe, Shrewsbury, Hereford line.
10. They want freight and passenger trains back but think trams must be put on first!
11. OUR railway is "of national strategic significance".