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Caddington Road, MANCHESTER, M21 8UD

Looking towards the railway bridge. The double yellow lines here were added around the time the nearby Metrolink stop was opened in July 2011. The Mercedes van with its wheels up on the footway was probably making a delivery to a nearby house.

A residential road near the new St. Werburgh's Road Metrolink tram stop. This is good news for local homeowners, because going by what has happened elsewhere, they should see a welcome rise in their property values! On the left is the entrance to Ella Dene Park, another residential road.

The double yellow lines here were added around the time the nearby Metrolink stop was opened in July 2011. The Mercedes van with its wheels up on the footway was probably making a delivery to a nearby house. The buildings on the right are the former farmhouse and a barn at Park Brow Farm, converted to dwellings in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

This is the junction station for the East Didsbury and Manchester Airport routes. The tram has come from the Airport and is travelling to Cornbrook.

Metrolink Bombardier tram 3067, on its journey towards Manchester Airport, arrives at the St Werburgh's Road tram stop. The Airport line diverges from the Didsbury line at a junction just to the south of the St Werburgh’s Road stop.

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former Cheshire Lines Committee railway to Chorlton, which finally closed in the late 1980's. Passenger services were withdrawn in January 1967.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

The camera lens has been zoomed in to give a better view of the tram stop. When the photograph was taken in early May 2011, the stop and the extension to here were still some weeks away from opening. Image

Until the opening of full extension to East Didsbury this was a terminal stop. Now it is an interchange station as the extension to Manchester Airport leaves the East Didsbury line here.

Looking north in the direction of the tram stop. The building on the left is converted barn at Park Brow Farm.

The South Manchester Line opened as far as the new stop near St Werburgh's Road in July 2011. The line uses part of the trackbed of the former South District heavy rail line, last used by passenger traffic in the 1960s. To the left a cycle path curves out of sight, following the former Fallowfield Loop Line towards Guide Bridge.