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Freight provision in Black Country Metro route

LIGHT RAIL

10 November 2017

 

A proposed Midland Metro line in the West Midlands will include passive provision for freight trains to share the tracks. 

The Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro route will serve Dudley town centre and the Waterfront/Merry Hill shopping centre (see map). 

About 4.2 miles of the  6.7-mile route will be along a disused railway. The original proposals envisaged a double track Metro alignment running alongside a single track for heavy rail. At ‘pinch points’, the alignment...

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