Smedley Viaduct and Metrolink control centre
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Smedley Viaduct and Metrolink control centre
Image: © Peter Whatley Taken: 9 Apr 2008
A view from the bridge just after Queens Road tunnel looking toward Manchester along the former 4-track Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 'Manchester loop'. After exiting the tunnel, the line almost immediately crossed Smedley Viaduct, with a connecting, curved viaduct up to the Manchester-Bury line. That line is now closed too, replaced by a Metrolink tram line. Metrolink's maintenance site and control centre is the blue-walled building top right. The tower slightly left of centre in the distance is the watchtower for Strangeways prison.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.500447
Longitude
-2.223829