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Parry sets sights on second branch line and higher speed vehicles

Andrew Forster
02 December 2011
Parry People Movers: capacity pressures growing
Parry People Movers: capacity pressures growing

 

The manufacturer of the Parry People Mover railbuses is  in talks with a rolling stock leasing company and landowners/ developers about a £5m plan to reinstate passenger trains on a freight-only branch in the West Midlands.

In October, the Government pledged £1m of Regional Growth Fund cash towards the cost of introducing a passenger service on the four-mile line branch between Stourbridge Junction and Brierley Hill, from where passengers could walk to the Merry Hill shopping...

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