Manchester Metrolink - St. Werburgh's Road tram stop, Chorlton-cum-Hardy
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Manchester Metrolink - St. Werburgh's Road tram stop, Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Image: © L S Wilson Taken: 7 May 2011
Opening of this tram stop and the extension of Metrolink is imminent. The stop has an island platform, with the tracks extending a little further to allow reversing. The extension to here uses almost three kilometres of the former Cheshire Lines Committee railway to Chorlton, which finally closed in the late 1980's. Passenger services were withdrawn in January 1967. Eventually there will be a further extension of the tramway for four and a half kilometres to East Didsbury. This is not due to open until the Summer of 2013. After that, there are hopes to extend the line to Stockport, but currently neither the legal powers nor funding are in place. Photographed from the bridge in St. Werburgh's Road. Image
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