Burton Road Metrolink station

 Burton Road
Manchester Metrolink
Location
Place Withington
Local authority City of Manchester
Platforms 2
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone
Present status Proposed station
History
Opening Summer 2013

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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Burton Road Metrolink Station is a future station which is to be constructed on one of the new lines on the Manchester Metrolink light rail public transport system in Manchester, England, UK.

The station is part of Phase 3B of the "Big Bang" extension project which will increase the Metrolink network size by 47 miles (76 km). Among other proposals, this project plans to re-open a disused railway through the suburbs of south Manchester to operate a light rail service into Manchester City Centre.[1]

Located on the west side of Burton Road in Withington, the new stop on this stretch of line will be in a cutting.

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History

In 1880 the Midland Railway opened the new Manchester South District line which ran from Manchester Central Station.[2] The line was later operated by the Cheshire Lines Committee. Under British Rail operation, the line closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe.

Plans to re-open the line for light rail use have been proposed since the early 1980s,[3] but these proposals failed several times due to problems securing funding.[4] Revised plans put forward in 2006 only allowed for the line to be opened as far as St Werburgh's Road in Chorlton.[5]

In 2009, following the failure of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund, revised transport funding was announced by the Government which would facilitate a major expansion of the Metrolink network, including the re-opening of the former Midland line and stations as far as East Didsbury.[1][6]

Metrolink extension

It is now planned to re-open the former CLC line after the junction with the Altrincham line at Trafford Bar, and to run a light rail service from East Didsbury, through Burton Road, into Manchester.

Burton Road station will be a newly-constructed stop on the South Manchester line, rather than a re-opened station. Passengers will be able to travel by rail between Manchester and East Didsbury for the first time since the line was closed in 1967.

The new station is scheduled to open in the summer of 2013.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "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. 
  2. ^ Sussex, Gay; Helm, Peter (1988). Looking Back at Withington and Didsbury. Timperley: Willow Publishing. pp. inside front cover. ISBN 0946361258. 
  3. ^ Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (1984), Light Rapid Transit in Greater Manchester, GMPTE  - publicity brochure
  4. ^ "Government scraps trams extension". BBC News. 2004-07-20. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3910235.stm. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
  5. ^ "Metrolink - the little Bang?". BBC Manchester. 2006-07-07. http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2006/06/23/230606_metrolink_decision_messageboard_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
  6. ^ "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. 
  7. ^ "Metrolink - South Manchester line". Transport for Greater Manchester. http://www.metrolink.co.uk/futuremetrolink/south-manchester-line.asp. Retrieved 26 June 2011. 

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