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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

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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, on its mainline, 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 Port Talbot, via 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