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I always thought the intention was for half the Trams to go round the new bit to the railway station and the other half to continue to terminate at St George's. Personally I was never convinced this was particularly sensible, particularly as the headways seem to have been reduced from the original Tram every 6 minutes to now running every 8 minutes.
I always thought the intention was for half the Trams to go round the new bit to the railway station and the other half to continue to terminate at St George's. Personally I was never convinced this was particularly sensible, particularly as the headways seem to have been reduced from the original Tram every 6 minutes to now running every 8 minutes.
I imagine that when Brierley Hill - Wolverhampton trams start running then either they or the Birmingham trams will use St George's and the other Wolverhampton Station seeing as it's only a single track turnaround at both termini.
I imagine that when Brierley Hill - Wolverhampton trams start running then either they or the Birmingham trams will use St George's and the other Wolverhampton Station seeing as it's only a single track turnaround at both termini.
I would agree, something like that would seem sensible. The silence from TFWM and/or Midlands Metro Alliance has been total. When the extension to Wolverhampton Station opened in Sep 2023, they said that Wolverhampton St George’s would closed temporarily and reopen “later in the autumn“. Since then questions posted on MMA’s social media have failed to elicit any response (as far as I’ve seen at least).
I believe the extended delay to re-opening St George's is down to the building work taking place on the 'City Learning Quarter' (a college campus) right next to the platform.
I don’t understand why it can’t be used even just as an alternative.
For instance earlier this week there was some sort of incident near the train station which meant the train station stop couldn’t be used and due to the way it’s routed means pipers row stop can’t be used leaving the city centre with no option. Trams in this case have to terminate at The Royal (a good 15 min walk out of the city centre). This happens quite a lot with either issues around the train station or signalling/road issues where the tram branches off from the old route.
Even if they kept St George’s as a back up, in those cases they could just revert to the old route and at least keep a city centre option going.
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I always thought the intention was for half the Trams to go round the new bit to the railway station and the other half to continue to terminate at St George's. Personally I was never convinced this was particularly sensible, particularly as the headways seem to have been reduced from the original Tram every 6 minutes to now running every 8 minutes.
I believe the extended delay to re-opening St George's is down to the building work taking place on the 'City Learning Quarter' (a college campus) right next to the platform.
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