a £1,100,000/15-year-long regeneration project is expected to re-open the closed section of railway through dudley as a combined midland metro tramway with a separate heavy rail line for goods trains. the old station site is earmarked as the location of a midland metro stop on the local tram network's second line between walsall, dudley port railway station, dudley railway station and the merry hill shopping centre scheduled for opening upon completion in 2011.sdit the freighters would continue on past brettell lane railway station and on to the mainline at stourbridge junction.