Firswood tram stop

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Firswood
Metrolink station
Firswood Metrolink Tram Stop (geograph 5562253).jpg
General information
Location Firswood, Trafford
England
Coordinates 53°27′04″N2°16′40″W / 53.45114°N 2.27764°W / 53.45114; -2.27764
Grid reference SJ816949
Line(s) South Manchester Line
Platforms2
Other information
StatusIn operation
Fare zone2
History
Original company Manchester Metrolink
Key dates
7 July 2011Opened
Location
Firswood tram stop

Firswood is a tram stop on the South Manchester Line (SML) and Airport Line of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. Located in the Firswood area of Stretford, it was built as part of Phase 3a of the network's expansion, and opened on 7 July 2011. [1]

Contents

Firswood Metrolink station is located on a section of the former Cheshire Lines Committee railway line, in a cutting adjacent to St John Vianney School on Rye Bank Road. The stop provides access to both Firswood and Whalley Range.

History

The station opened on 7 July 2011. [1] and is the first newly constructed station on the new South Manchester Metrolink line out of Manchester. Firswood 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 tracks of the Cheshire Lines Committee as far as East Didsbury.

In 2006, it was announced that Phase 3A would go ahead, including the extension of the network as far 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

Firswood is located on the South Manchester Line with trams towards Shaw and Crompton via Victoria and Oldham and to East Didsbury running every 12 minutes Monday-Saturdays and Sunday daytime and every 15 minutes Sunday early mornings and evenings. [7] Services extended from St Werburgh's Road to East Didsbury on 23 May 2013 and, from 3 November 2014, services ran to Manchester Airport from Cornbrook.

Preceding station Manchester metrolink logo.PNG Manchester Metrolink Following station
Chorlton
towards East Didsbury
East Didsbury–Rochdale Trafford Bar
towards Rochdale Town Centre
East Didsbury–Shaw (peak only) Trafford Bar
towards Shaw and Crompton
Chorlton
towards Manchester Airport
Manchester Airport–Victoria Trafford Bar
towards Victoria

Service pattern

Connecting bus routes

Firswood is not served by any direct bus service but some services stop nearby to the stop. Stagecoach Manchester service 15 stops on King's Road and runs westbound to Flixton via Stretford and Urmston and eastbound to Manchester. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Metrolink's new Chorlton line opens for business". Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  2. 1 2 Linton, Deborah (13 May 2009). "£1.4bn transport deal unveiled". Manchester Evening News. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  3. ↑ Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (1984). "Light Rapid Transit in Greater Manchester" (Document). GMPTE. - publicity brochure
  4. ↑ "Metrolink extension is announced". BBC News. 6 July 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  5. ↑ "Tram line extension is approved". BBC News. 13 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  6. ↑ "Metrolink: back on track?". BBC Manchester. 13 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  7. ↑ "Metrolink - Tram Times - Firswood". Metrolink. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  8. ↑ "Transport for Greater Manchester - Journey Planning - Network Maps". Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
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