West Midlands To Get A New Freight Interchange
This article in Rail News is entitled New railfreight hub proposed for West Midlands. This is the first paragraph.
Plans have been published for a major rail interchange in the West Midlands, which its promoters say will boost the regional economy and could create between 6,500 and 8,500 jobs.
It sounds good to me. Especially, when you look at this map of the location.
Four Ashes Railfreight Hub
The area is known as Four Ashes and it used to have have a station of the same name.
- On the map the railfreight hub will be in the large triangular area of white and grey buildings towards the bottom of the map and slightly left of the middle.
- The site is 250 hectares.
- The M6 runs South East to North in a gentle curve and has a major junction (12!) with the A5.
- the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line runs North-South to the right of the line of yellow fields (rape?) and the left of the site of the railfreight hub.
- It’s also not the only proposed new rail infrastructure in the area, as a station has been proposed at Brinsford Parkway, a few miles to the South.
It could certainly be described as a big well-positioned railfreight hub.
But will the locals object, despite the thousands of jobs?
The Anonymous Widower 
Completely Misleading the white area is existing estate, the planned hub covers half the GREEN FIELDS (green belt land) on the map) in a triangle A5 A449 Vicarage road plus between vicarage road & straight mile.
Comment by John Hughes | August 16, 2016 |
Thanks for your comment! But at least if it happens, it will go through the planning process. I used to live near an unofficial one, that caused problems for everyone from the MP, the Council and the police was extremely annoyed, but powerless, as the Planning Department had been very naughty.
Comment by AnonW | August 16, 2016 |
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