Dear Dawn
It was lovely to meet you briefly at the Board meeting, yesterday. Unlike your good self, I still live in heavenly Halesowen - that is less so without you!
Would any of your students like to write to Andy Street at andy.street@wmca.org.uk and customerservices@tfwm.org.uk asking for commuter and regional passenger trains to return to your local railway station to finish the line that they built but forgot to complete with the rather vital trains and stations? I'm referring to the line from Burton on Trent, via Lichfield to Walsall and even on to Dudley Castle Hill tram stop (the former railway station)? Map here:
The view on top of the nationally important railway bridge featured above:
You do have freight to Lichfield, past Alrewas but no passenger trains and station serving the National Memorial Arboretum that is next to the freight only railway. It is the 120 Kms between Derby and Worcester via the Black Country. Hence, everyone has to pile into their cars to deepen the climate emergency. Yet the line is already built and or mothballed and is the UK's only mainline railway "of national strategic significance".
We car drivers, wanting less congestion and a deepening climate emergency, need to take back control and persuade the politicians and officers to do the blindingly obvious!
Thanks so much if you would like to help, please in motivating your students to act to their advantage.
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