Central Park Metrolink station

Central Park
Manchester Metrolink
Location
Place	Newton Heath
Local authority	City of Manchester
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone
Present status	Under construction
History
Opening	Mar 2012
Oldham and Rochdale Line Rochdale Town Centre Rochdale Railway Station  Newbold Kingsway Business Park Milnrow Newhey Shaw and Crompton Derker Oldham Mumps Oldham Central Oldham King Street Westwood Freehold South Chadderton Hollinwood Failsworth Newton Heath and Moston Central Park Monsall Manchester Victoria  to Piccadilly
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Central Park Metrolink Station is a future station on the Metrolink light rail network in the Newton Heath area of the City of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England. The station was constructed in 2005 but is currently unused. While estimated to become operational in 2011 and provide rail services between Rochdale and Manchester Victoria and beyond, the station is not yet open as of mid-December 2011 and revised estimates suggest March 2012 as the new target.

The station will serve the Central Park area, an urban renewal development project in north-east Manchester which will include the new headquarters of Greater Manchester Police. The station forms part of The Gateway, a £36.5 million transport interchange which will include local bus services as well as the Metrolink tram stop.

Construction

The station building features a striking curved copper and glass canopy suspended by a cable-tensioned steel structure. It was designed by architects Aukett Fitzroy Robinson, whose work has included a number of projects for London Underground (including Clapham Common tube station, and the reconstruction of Farringdon and Blackfriars stations). It was completed in 2005 in readiness for the Metrolink extension through Oldham to Rochdale as part of Phase 3A the "Big Bang" network expansion project. However, due to funding problems and repeated project cancellations, the line extension has not yet gone ahead and the station remains unused. Although the station lies next to the Caldervale railway line between Victoria and Rochdale, there is no interchange with National Rail services. However, it is possible that railway platforms may be added in future.

Construction on the Metrolink line began in October 2009. It is projected that the station will open to trams from Manchester in November/December 2011 and a full service from Manchester to Rochdale will commence in Spring 2012, almost 7 years after the station was built.

A bridge across the Caldervale Line was also built in 2005 to the north of the station, this will form the continuation of the Metrolink route when the extension eventually opens.

External links

• Central Park Metrolink station plans

Preceding station		Manchester Metrolink		Following station
		Under Construction
Monsall towards Victoria		Oldham and Rochdale Line		Newton Heath and Moston towards Rochdale Town Centre

Manchester Lines - City Centre and North, (Past, Present and Future)

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