High Street tram stop

For other uses, see High Street station.

High Street
High Street tram stop in 1993, visible on the left
General information
Location	Manchester city centre, Manchester England
Coordinates	53°28′57″N2°14′22″W / 53.48250°N 2.23944°W / 53.48250; -2.23944
Grid reference	SJ842984
System	Metrolink station
Line	First City Crossing
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Closed
Fare zone	D (City)
History
Opened	27 April 1992 (1992-04-27) Southbound only
Closed	10 August 1998 (1998-08-10)
Original company	Metrolink
Route map Legend to Bury to Oldham & Rochdale Zone 1 Victoria Shudehill Exchange Square Market Street Piccadilly Gardens St Peter's Square Piccadilly Deansgate-Castlefield ( Deansgate) New Islington Cornbrook to Ashton- under-Lyne stop in both Zone 1 and 2   to MediaCityUK, Eccles & The Trafford Centre Trafford Bar to Altrincham to East Didsbury & Manchester Airport This diagram: view talk edit
Location

High Street was a tram stop on Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink network, located in Manchester city centre, England. It was on the east side of High Street opposite Manchester Arndale, between the present Shudehill tram stop and Market Street tram stop.

The stop opened on 27 April 1992. ^[1] Market Street (which opened the same day, ^[2] and was just around the corner) and High Street Metrolink stops effectively formed a single station staggered across a road junction, with different stop names for each platform: southbound vehicles (going towards Piccadilly Gardens and St Peter's Square) stopped at the High Street stop, and northbound vehicles (going towards Victoria) stopped at Market Street. ^{[notes 1]} High Street, Market Street and Mosley Street tram stops were each originally built with a single-platform construction and one-way operation due to constraints on available space in the road layout. ^[3]

Market Street was modified to handle traffic in both directions when the street was closed to traffic, and the High Street platform was demolished in 1998 after six years' service.

Map of the original layout of Market Street (northbound) and High Street (southbound) tram stops in 1992

Notes

1. Shudehill tram stop did not open until 2003, and so the next stop for northbound trams after High Street was Manchester Victoria station.

References

1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 120. ISBN   1-85260-508-1. R508.
2. Butt 1995 , p. 155
3. Ogden, Eric; Senior, John A. (1992). Metrolink. Transport Publishing. pp. 61, 89. ISBN   978-0863171550.

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Former services
Mosley Street towards Altrincham		Altrincham–Bury (peak only)		Victoria One-way operation
Piccadilly Gardens towards Bury		Bury–Piccadilly reverse

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Manchester Metrolink Main line services to Rochdale to Oldham Moston Newton Heath to Bury Newton Heath and Moston Bowker Vale to Tameside Crumpsall Clayton Bridge Abraham Moss Park Woodlands Road to Tameside Queens Road Central Park Monsall Edge Lane Miles Platting Clayton Hall Velopark Oldham Road Holt Town Manchester Victoria Etihad Campus Exchange New Islington to Ordsall Chord and to Salford Ardwick Shudehill Ashburys High Street │ Manchester Piccadilly Mayfield Market Street │ Piccadilly Gardens to South Manchester Exchange Square Gorton Mosley Street Manchester Oxford Road St Peter's Square to Belle Vue Manchester Central │ Deansgate- Castlefield Deansgate Liverpool Road to Hyde Road to Ordsall Chord and to Salford to Tameside Cornbrook Cornbrook Pomona to Eccles Trafford Bar to Trafford to Trafford Firswood to Altrincham to Chorlton