JULY 17, 2022
"The Dudley / Brierley Hill extension was a wasted opportunity. It should have been built to the same specification as the Sheffield tram trains and extended to allow services to run on the disused line, from Brownhills (or even Lichfield) to Walsall and onto Wednesbury, Dudley, BH and Stourbridge.
"The reinstated line could also have been used by busy freight services to and from the North East / South West, avoiding the congested lines around Birmingham."
SELF:
All they had to do was to finish what they had already built and put commuter and regional trains, plus stations, back on the missing middle section of 56 Kms between Stourbridge Jct and Burton on Trent. That would have completed the 120 Kms Black Country Railway "of national strategic significance" (letter from Network Rail/DfT on 18 March 2018) and brought much welcome relief to train and road users alike!
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