West Didsbury tram stop

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30px West Didsbury
Metrolink
260px
The first Metrolink passenger service
at West Didsbury, 23 May 2013
West Didsbury is located in Manchester_Metrolink
West Didsbury
West Didsbury
Location of West Didsbury in Greater Manchester
Location
Place Didsbury
Local authority Manchester
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Grid reference SJ842921
Platforms 2
Fare zone information
Present status In operation
Operations
Original operator South District Railway
Pre-grouping company Midland Railway
Post-grouping company London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
History
Opened 1880
Closed as rail station 1961
Conversion to Metrolink operation 23 May 2013[1]
Former name Withington and Albert Park (1880)
Withington and West Didsbury (1895)
Renamed 1895

Transit map symbol.png South Manchester Line
to Rochdale
Deansgate-Castlefield National Rail 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 Parking National Rail
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West Didsbury is a tram stop on the South Manchester Line (SML) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. It opened to passengers on 23 May 2013,[1][2] in West Didsbury, South Manchester, England.[3][4]

The Metrolink stop sits some 300m south east of the former heavy rail station of the Midland Railway, which opened 1 January 1880 as Withington; was renamed on 1 July 1884 to Withington and Albert Park; renamed again on 1 April 1915 to Withington and West Didsbury; and closed 3 July 1961. The route was earmarked for redevelopment with a light rail system during the 1980s, and was confirmed and funded as part of Metrolink's Phase 3b of expansion in 2006.


Service pattern

  • 12 minute service to Deansgate-Castlefield with double trams in the peak
  • 12 minute service to East Didsbury with double trams in the peak

History

Railway station

Withington & West Didsbury railway station opened in 1880 as "Withington" when the Midland Railway opened its new Manchester South District line out of Manchester Central Station. The station was renamed "Withington & Albert Park" in 1884, and then "Withington & West Didsbury" in 1895.[5][6]

The Manchester South District line, and consequently Withington & West Didsbury station, closed in July 1961. By the 2000s, the original cobbled station approach road and wall were still visible off Lapwing Lane, and the remains of the station platforms could still be seen at the bottom of the overgrown embankment.

Metrolink stop

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See also: History of Manchester Metrolink

The West Didsbury Metrolink stop opened on 23 May 2013, on the opposite side of Palatine Road from the original railway station.[1][2][7]

  • Midland Railway lines out of Manchester, showing the Manchester South District line

  • West-didsbury-station2.jpg

    The disused Manchester South District line in Didsbury

  • West-didsbury-station-2008-.jpg

    West Didsbury

  • First Metrolink passenger service at West Didsbury, 23 May 2013.jpg

    The first Metrolink passenger service to stop at West Didsbury, at 5.53 a.m. on 23 May 2013

See also

References

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External links

Preceding station   15px Manchester Metrolink   Following station
towards East Didsbury
 East Didsbury – Bury Line
towards Bury
  From 26 June 2016  
towards East Didsbury
 East Didsbury – Deansgate-Castlefield Line
Disused railways
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Line closed, station open		   Midland Railway
South District Railway		   Didsbury
Line and station closed
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