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West Didsbury tram stop

Manchester Metrolink tram stop

Field	Value
style	Manchester Metrolink
name	West Didsbury
type	Metrolink station
image	First Metrolink passenger service at West Didsbury, 23 May 2013.jpg
borough
country	England
coordinates
map_caption	Location in Greater Manchester, England
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
line	South Manchester Line
status	In operation
zone	3
original	South District Railway
postgroup	{{plainlist
pregroup	Midland Railway
platforms	2
years	1 January 1880
events	Opened as Withington
years1	1 July 1884
events1	Renamed Withington and Albert Park
years2	1 April 1915
events2	Renamed Withington and West Didsbury
years3	3 July 1961
events3	Closed
years4	23 May 2013
events4	Reopened and renamed West Didsbury
mapframe	yes
mapframe-custom
map_state	collapsed
services	{{Adjacent stations	system1=Manchester Metrolink
line1	pink	left1=Didsbury Village	right1=Burton Road
line2	grey	left2=Didsbury Village	right2=Burton Road
header3	Disused railways
{{rail line	previous
Line closed, station open	next=
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South District Railway	col= }}
route_map

London, Midland and Scottish Railway
British Rail (London Midland Region)}} | mapframe-custom = 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, in West Didsbury, south Manchester, England.

The Metrolink stop is 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 on 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.

Palatine Road/Lapwing Lane London Midland Region of British Railways

Service pattern

12 minute service to , with double trams at peak times;
12 minute service to , with double trams at peak times;
6 minute service to , with double trams at peak times.

History

Railway station

Withington and 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 1915.{{cite web |access-date=2012-05-27}}

The station closed in July 1961, although local services to other stations on the Manchester South District line continued to pass through until January 1967, and express trains continued to use this route until 1969, when the entre line was closed as part of the Beeching cuts. 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

In 1984, Greater Manchester Council and GMPTE announced the Project Light Rail scheme to develop a new light rail/tram system by re-opening use of disused railway lines in the region, including the route through West Didsbury. The first phase of the Manchester Metrolink system opened in 1992, but it was not until 2013 that the network was expanded to reach as far as East Didsbury, as part of Phase 3b of the Metrolink expansion project. Tram tracks were laid along the former trackbed and a new tram stop was constructed in the railway cutting on the opposite side of Palatine Road from the original railway station. The West Didsbury Metrolink stop opened on 23 May 2013.

File:Midland to Manchester.jpg|Midland Railway lines out of Manchester, showing the Manchester South District line File:West Didsbury map 1911.jpg|1911 OS map of West Didsbury, showing the old railway station to the north of the present tram stop File:West-didsbury-station2.jpg|The disused railway line (pictured in 2008) File:Site of the soon to be West Didsbury Metrolink station - panoramio.jpg|The disused railway line (pictured in 2011) File:Construction of West Didsbury Metrolink Station (geograph 4292632).jpg|Construction of the new West Didsbury Metrolink strop in 2011 File:Didsbury transport map.png|Map of Didsbury showing the locations of the old station and the tram stop

References

(23 May 2013). "First passengers travel on tram extension to East Didsbury". Manchester Evening News.
(13 May 2009). "Tram line extension is approved". BBC News.
(2009-05-13). "Metrolink: back on track?". BBC Manchester.
(1988). "Looking Back at Withington and Didsbury". Willow Publishing.
(1991). "Metrolink: Official Handbook". Transport Publishing Company.
"Early doors for East Didsbury’s new Metrolink line". Transport for Greater Manchester.
"Metrolink - South Manchester line". Transport for Greater Manchester.

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