Dudley Tram aka WBHE Phase 2 from Flood St, Dudley to Cottage St, Brierley Hill. WBHE = Wednesbury Brierley Hill Extension. I'm trying to stop Phase 2 completely or, at least, to have the tram connect with the national railway network at Stourbridge Jct by keeping it on the mainline railway
from Cinder Bank roundabout to Stourbridge Jct station. It would have been easier, simpler and cheaper to have put freight and passenger trains on the 56 Kms missing link on the London to Edinburgh railway between Stourbridge and Burton on Trent. Everything is already built apart from the stations.
MAPS, here:
from Railfuture:
Shows the extent of the negligence, idiocy and incompetence over more than 40 years as we all stew in traffic jams:
Shows how it destroys nature, public open space and housing land:
Show all the extensions planned since 1981:
Shows the destruction of nature, public open space and land for housing:
Birmingham Eastside Extension of 1.7 Kms from Bull St via Curzon Street Station to to a new terminus at High Street Deritend.
"An additional extension will see the Birmingham Eastside route taken further eastwards, serving Solihull and terminating at the core HS2 interchange. When open for passenger service in 2026 it will allow access by tram to the airport, National Exhibition Centre and Genting Arena."
But the £144m/Km tram is now not due to open to High St Deritend until 2027, at the earliest, because Curzon St Sta has to be built first.
£7 m/Km for rebuilding the Borders Railway of 52 Kms through the Southern Uplands of Scotland when it opened in Sept 2015!! 54% single track when the Victorians built the original to double track.
6 new overground lines for London have just been given names today by TfL, I heard on the Radio 2 News. We get ours used to run cars, shops, homes and trading estates down them - and trams!
OFFICIAL METRO EXTENSIONS SITE:
https://www.tfwm.org.uk/who-we-are/what-we-do/west-midlands-metro-tram-extensions/
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