St Werburgh's Road Metrolink station

St Werburgh's Road
Manchester Metrolink
The station, shortly after opening
Location
Place	Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Local authority	City of Manchester
Platforms	1 (island)
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	P
Present status	In operation
History
Opened	7 July 2011
South Manchester Line to Piccadilly and Bury Deansgate-Castlefield Deansgate Cornbrook to Eccles Trafford Bar to Altrincham Firswood Chorlton St Werburgh's Road to Manchester Airport Withington Burton Road West Didsbury Didsbury Village East Didsbury
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St Werburgh's Road Metrolink station is a station built as part of Phase 3a of the Manchester Metrolink Big Bang extension plans. The station opened on 7 July 2011.^[1]

Consisting of an island platform to the east of St Werburgh's Road in Chorlton, the stop will serve as interchange for passengers travelling towards either Manchester Airport or East Didsbury.

History

St Werburgh's Road is a new station on a re-opened railway line, the Cheshire Lines Committee line, which closed to passenger service in 1967. It was planned to re-open 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 the extension of 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 as East Didsbury (Phase 3B) will now go ahead with funding from national and local government.^[2][5][6]

Construction of the line began in April 2009 and the new line became operational in July 2011.^[1]

Services

St Werburgh's Road is located on the South Manchester Line with trams towards Victoria running every 12 minutes Monday–Saturday and Sunday daytime and every 15 minutes Sunday early mornings and evenings.^[7]. Service will increase from 12 minutes to 6 minutes once the line to Central Park, Oldham Mumps and Rochdale opens. Services will extend from St Werburgh's Road to East Didsbury in 2013 and additional services will run between the city centre and Manchester Airport in 2016.

Service Pattern

• 5 tph to Victoria

Gallery

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  1914 map of South Manchester railways

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  Construction work on the line near Chorlton

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  Map of the planned South Manchester line extensions

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  Bridge under Mauldeth Road West near new station

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  Trackbed near new station

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Metrolink's new Chorlton line opens for business". Transport for Greater Manchester. http://www.tfgm.com/2009_news.cfm?news_id=9007167?submenuheader=3. Retrieved 6 July 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Linton, Deborah (2009-05-13). "£1.4bn transport deal unveiled". Manchester Evening News. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1115242_14bn_transport_deal_unveiled. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
3. ^ Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (1984), Light Rapid Transit in Greater Manchester, GMPTE  - publicity brochure
4. ^ "Metrolink extension is announced". BBC News. 2006-07-06. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5152948.stm. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
5. ^ "Tram line extension is approved". BBC News. 2009-05-13. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8047020.stm. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
6. ^ "Metrolink: back on track?". BBC Manchester. 2009-05-13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2009/05/13/130509_metrolink_map_plan_b_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
7. ^ "Metrolink - Tram Times". Transport for Greater Manchester. http://www.metrolink.co.uk/tramtimes/. Retrieved 6 July 2011. 

External links

• Manchester Metrolink Extension Project - map of the plans (Urban Transport Technology)
• http://www.lrta.org/Manchester/City_South.html

Preceding station		Manchester Metrolink		Following station
		Open
Terminus		St Werburgh's Road - Victoria Line		Chorlton towards Victoria
		Under Construction
Withington towards East Didsbury		South Manchester Line		Chorlton towards Victoria
Barlow Moor Road towards Manchester Airport		Manchester Airport Line		Chorlton Terminus

Coordinates: 53°26′21″N 2°15′59″W / 53.4392°N 2.2664°W / 53.4392; -2.2664