A 15-year-long regeneration project will see the station become part of the local tram network with the line reopening between Walsall, Dudley Port railway station, Dudley railway station and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre for trams. Goods trains would continue on past Brettell Lane railway station and on to the mainline at Stourbridge junction, although the trams would only reach Wednesbury to the north and Brierley Hill to the south. The closed section of railway through Dudley is expected to re-open by 2023, as a combined West Midlands Metro tram route, and the capacity for heavy rail line at a later date.
