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New Metrolink Depot
The existing depot at Queen’s Road will not be big enough to handle the expanded network. GMPTE have obtained the site for a second depot, near Old Trafford tram stop, on land bounded by Ayres Road, the Altrincham line and the former railway line to Chorlton. The site has now been cleared except for one modern building which may be used as the depot building.
Oldham and Rochdale Line
Central Park Interchange
This comprises:
The Gateway entrance road between Oldham Road (A62) and Northampton Road
High Quality Bus Route infrastructure
An impressive structure for the Oldham and Rochdale Metrolink stop
New bridge
In the 320 metres between The Gateway and Thorp Road a new concrete bridge has been built to carry Metrolink. A central load bearing “fin” along the top which supports this bridge; together with the twisting design enables it to pass over the railway and then quickly drop to go through a disused bridge under Thorp Road. Metrolink tracks will then run alongside the railway towards Dean Lane.
Oldham King Street Baptist Church
The King Street building is on the Metrolink route through Oldham. Church Members have moved to a new building nearby at Chaucer Street.
Oldham Mumps
Properties have been acquired and demolished at Mumps in Oldham.
Ashton–under–Lyne Line
Building alterations to Rammon House were completed in December 2003. Dale and Co.’s former premises at Longacre Street have been demolished.
The old buildings on the Metrolink route, between Pollard Street and the Manchester and Ashton–under–Lyne Canal, have now been demolished. A new development is under construction alongside the canal, between Munday Street and Carruthers Street.
Substantial works along the Ashton Canal Corridor between Holt Town and the City of Manchester Stadium are complete. These include a bridge across the River Medlock near Cambrian Street also bridges under the nearby road and railway line. They are wide enough to accommodate both Metrolink and the footpath between Holt Town and the Stadium. This footpath, opened for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, remains in use.
A tunnel underpass under Alan Turing Way and Gibbon Street, between the Stadium and the ASDA store, was completed in March 2003.
The Edge Lane/Manchester Road and Cemetery Road stop sites have been cleared.
Following alterations to the adjoining property, the former bank building, at the corner of Market Street and Ashton Road Droylsden, has been demolished. St. Mary’s new school building was completed in October 2003. Space is now available for the Droylsden Metrolink stop.
The Audenshaw gyratory has been cleared, an earth bank, with plants, surrounds the site. The Audenshaw stop will be here.
A number of houses on the north side of Manchester Road and west of Gainsborough Road have been cleared. A noise barrier has been built to protect the houses on Windsor Drive. This will be a reserved alignment which then crosses Gainsborough Road and continues behind the Snipe Inn.
At Ashton–under–Lyne the stop site, adjacent to Ashton bus station, has been cleared.
South Manchester and Airport line
GMPTE worked with National Grid to relocate a main transmission pylon adjacent to Mersey Valley/Sale Water Park to make way for Metrolink just before it crosses the M60 motorway. This work was completed at the end of March 2004.
As part of a major new Ground Transport Interchange a 75 metre tunnel section under the Airport access road was completed in 2002.
Properties have been acquired and demolished at Brownley Road in Wythenshawe.
Alterations to Ringway Trading Estate in Wythenshawe were completed in November 2003.
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