St Werburgh's Road tram stop

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30px St Werburgh's Road
Metrolink
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The stop shortly after opening
St Werburgh's Road is located in Manchester_Metrolink
St Werburgh's Road
St Werburgh's Road
Location of St Werburgh's Road in Greater Manchester
Location
Place Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Local authority Manchester
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Grid reference SJ824936
Platforms 1 (island)
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone P
Present status In operation
Operations
Original operator Manchester Metrolink
History
Opened 7 July 2011
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St Werburgh's Road is a tram stop on the South Manchester Line (SML) and Airport Line of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. It was built as part of Phase 3a of the network's expansion and opened on 7 July 2011.[1]

Consisting of an island platform to the east of St Werburgh's Road, the stop is built largely on the site of the former Chorlton Junction Signal Box and its surroundings. It serves as an interchange for passengers travelling towards either Manchester Airport or East Didsbury.

History

St Werburgh's Road stop is on a re-opened railway line, the Cheshire Lines Committee line, which closed to passenger service in 1967. It was planned to reopen the line as part of the expansion of the Manchester Metrolink tram network.[2] Proposals to re-open the line have been put forward since the 1980s,[3] but remained unfunded until the 2000s. The line extension which was originally proposed would take over the disused trackbed of the Cheshire Lines Committee as far as East Didsbury.

In 2006, it was announced that the first phase of the "Big Bang" Metrolink expansion project (Phase 3A) would go ahead, including extensing the network as far as St Werburgh's Road.[4] Following the rejection of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund in a public referendum in 2008, extension of the line to East Didsbury (Phase 3B) went ahead with funding from national and local government.[2][5][6]

Construction of the line began in April 2009 and the line became operational as far as St Werburgh's Road in July 2011.[1] Services to East Didsbury became operational on 23 May 2013.[7]

On 3 November 2014 the Metrolink extension was opened from St Werburgh's Road station to Manchester Airport station.

Service pattern

  • 12 minute service to Bury with double trams in the peak
  • 6 minute service to Cornbrook with some double trams (every 20 minutes to Firswood before 6 am)
  • 12 minute service to East Didsbury with double trams in the peak
  • 12 minute service to Manchester Airport with single trams (every 20 minutes before 6 am)

Connecting bus routes

St Werburgh's Road station is not served by any direct bus service. There are several services that stop in nearby Chorlton centre.[8]

Cycle track

The Fallowfield Loop cycle path begins at St Werburgh's Road station and follows the old trackbed of the former Fallowfield Loop railway line through Fallowfield and Levenshulme to Debdale Park.[9]

Gallery

  • 1914 map of South Manchester railways

  • Metrolink extension to Chorlton.jpg

    Construction work on the line near Chorlton

  • Metrolink phase south manchester line.png

    Map of the planned South Manchester line extensions

  • St Werburgh's Road Metrolink station, Chorlton - geograph.org.uk - 2553190.jpg

    The cycle track (left) continues along the former Fallowfield Loop line

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. - publicity brochure
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/metrolink-passengers-told-can-tram-3710695
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Preceding station   15px Manchester Metrolink   Following station
Manchester Airport - Cornbrook Line
towards Cornbrook
Manchester Airport - Firswood Line
3am-6am only
towards Firswood
towards East Didsbury
 East Didsbury – Bury Line
towards Bury
  From 26 June 2016  
Manchester Airport - Cornbrook Line
towards Cornbrook
Manchester Airport - Firswood Line
3am-6am only
towards Firswood
towards East Didsbury
 East Didsbury – Deansgate-Castlefield Line
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