Adrian - referring to your email, below this:
Please could you go back to Toby and explain that it is most unlikely there was a business case ever written. If there was, I would like to read it, please. Secondly, it is inefficient to spend 42 years achieving a pathetic 23 Kms of tramway (18 Kms on the first mainline railway destroyed) from Wolverhampton to Edgbaston Village tram stop, to build a tramway on the UK's ONLY principal mainline railway
and, to put a VLR Innovation Centre on the 100 year old successful Dudley Castle Hill mainline station, plus a 2 Km VLR test track from the former station to Cinder Bank roundabout.
TfWM/WMCA can recover from the mess they have created by completing the Stourbridge Loop to meet the Dudley Tram at Cinder Bank roundabout. This is the missing link freight line from Stourbridge Jct to the roundabout. It is efficient to bring back commuter and regional passenger trains to a freight railway. As was done for the first 100 years of the railways in Britain.
The Worcester to Derby section of the London to Edinburgh Railway will then be a TRAIN-TRAM-TRAIN principal mainline - a world first for us world-class, brilliant Brits.
The UK's Nationally Determined Contributions from HMG says, "The UK commits to reducing economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels."
My suggestion to concentrate on restoring our surviving railway lines, NOT the tram network on those railway lines, is one easy way of helping.
Thanks
Tim
On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 15:48, Customer Services <customerservices@tfwm.org.uk> wrote:
Your case number is 39203
Dear Mr Weller
Thank you for email to Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), received on 4 December 2023, regarding Jewellery Quarter train services.
Having spoken to Toby Rackliff, West Midlands Rail Executive’s Rail
Policy Strategic Lead, I understand that a reply to your enquiry was sent in September, which made the two following points:
- The West Midlands Trains proposal to which you refer had a very poor business case and was operationally inefficient so was not pursued
- Further updates on the Wednesbury – Brierley Hill metro extension project will be posted on the WMCA website
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