Photos and maps of Magnificent Merry Heaven, here:
This site is still down for housing on the other, west side of Dudley No 1 Canal from the tramway viaduct and shopping centre. A possible SSSI with great crested newts that are found 1 Km north at the Fens Pool SSSI.
Photo taken from the towpath where the tramway will be built on the canal embankment:
This Swiss engineered monorail lasted 3 years in the early 90s but was very useful to take people into the very centre of the shopping centre at Central Station (still survives intact) but, stupidly, it was never connected to the mainline railway that should have been reopened for freight and passenger trains then! It connected the Waterfront car park (free) to the main stores and those in the south. Single track, suspended Von Roll monorail would, very likely, be cheaper to rebuild than the double track tramway that is a sledge hammer to crack a nut and is 100 metres from the main entrance to the shops, unlike the monorail:
July 2020 prices here:
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Very best to keep the Dudley Tram (aka WBHE) on the former, principal, mainline railway to Stourbridge Jct station to benefit the most passengers.
Second best: At Merry Hill SC minimise further destruction of Nature and Climate by putting the tram on the TOP of the steep Dudley No 1 Canal embankment, alongside the towpath from Level Street. NOT slap bang through my 30-year-old guerrilla garden as planned, here:
Metro tram planned to go across the steep embankment and straight over the rusty iron wall that I have greened up with climber plants and trees, as here:
The white trees could be saved if the tram went next to the towpath, on top of the embankment from Level Street, where there is plenty of room for the double tracks. My vertical guerrilla garden would also be saved:
PLEASE OBLIGE, all you VIP decision makers. THANKS!
Tim Weller
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