Brooklands Metrolink station

 Brooklands
Manchester Metrolink
Brooklands Metrolink station in 2007
Location
Place Sale
Local authority Trafford
Platforms 2
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone F
Operations
Original operator MSJAR
Post-grouping company LMS/LNER
London Midland Region of British Railways
History
Opened 1 December 1859
Closed 24 December 1991
Conversion to Metrolink operation 15 June 1992
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Brooklands is a Manchester Metrolink station serving the Brooklands area of Sale, Greater Manchester. It is located on Brooklands Station Approach at the corner of Marsland Road and Brooklands Road. The station is in Ticketing Zone F.

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History

The station originally opened on 1 December 1859 by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR). Built following approach from Samuel Brooks, a Manchester banker, who built a large speculative estate of large houses along Brooklands Road. Closed as a British Rail station on 24 December 1991. Reopened as a Metrolink station on 15 June 1992.

Brooklands Station is a Grade II listed building.

Services

Brooklands is located on the Altrincham Line with trams towards Altrincham stopping every 6 minutes during the day, Mondays to Saturdays, every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday evenings and Sunday evenings and every 15 minutes Sunday daytime. Trams also head towards Manchester and Bury, with the Monday to Saturday daytime service running every 12 minutes each to Manchester Piccadilly or Bury, while evening and Sundays journeys run to Bury via Manchester Piccadilly.[1]

Service Pattern

Car access

There is no provision for private cars to pick up or drop off passengers.

Connecting bus routes

Brooklands station is served by Arriva North West/Stagecoach Manchester service 99, which runs to Sale via Sale Moor and to Manchester via Northenden, Go Goodwins service 266, which runs to Sale and to Altrincham via Timperley and by Go Goodwins service 268, which runs between Wythenshawe and Urmston via Sale and Stretford.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Metrolink - Tram Times". Metrolink. http://www.metrolink.co.uk/tramtimes/. Retrieved 7 September 2010. 
  2. ^ "Transport for Greater Manchester - Journey Planning - Newtork Maps". Transport for Greater Manchester. http://www.tfgm.com/journey_planning/maps.cfm. Retrieved 9 July 2011. 

External links

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 Altrincham - Bury Line
towards Bury
Altrincham - Piccadilly Line
towards Piccadilly