Woodlands Road Metrolink station

Woodlands Road
Manchester Metrolink
Woodlands Road Metrolink station in 2009
Location
Place	Cheetham Hill
Local authority	Manchester
Platforms	2
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	C
Operations
Original operator	Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping company	LMS British Rail
History
Opened	1913
Conversion to Metrolink operation	6 April 1992
Bury Line Bury Bury Bolton Street Buckley Wells Radcliffe Whitefield Besses o'th' Barn Prestwich Heaton Park Bowker Vale Crumpsall Abraham Moss Woodlands Road Queens Road to Rochdale Town Centre Manchester Victoria  to Piccadilly Gardens
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Woodlands Road Metrolink station is a Manchester Metrolink station on the former Manchester Victoria to Bury railway line.

It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1913, in an attempt to fend off growing electric tramway competition in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. The original halt had wooden platforms. The site is near the vanished junction of a former branch line to the chemical works in Blackley. According to the current Metrolink map this stations serves as the closest station to the Manchester Museum of Transport on Boyle Street. The station forms part of Ticketing Zone C.

Services

Woodlands Road is located on the Bury Line with trams towards Bury stopping every 6 minutes between 9.59am and 4pm, Mondays to Fridays. with no weekend or evening service. This is due to the opening of the nearby Abraham Moss Metrolink station further north along the Bury line.

Connecting bus routes

Woodlands Road is a Metrolink station that is not served by any bus service. The nearest bus services are the 151, 156 and 165 on Hazelbottom Road or Smedley Road and the 88, 89, 135, 149 and 167 on Cheetham Hill Road.

Future

The UK Government announced that GBP 4 million from the Community Infrastructure Fund was awarded to two new stops on the Bury Metrolink line. This is part of GBP 30 million allocated to transport projects to support thousands of extra homes being built across the country over the coming months.

Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority Chairman, Councillor Keith Whitmore, said that the funding would help realise a long held ambition to open new stops at Queen’s Road and Abraham Moss. One new stop will be at the Abraham Moss Centre at Abraham Moss in Crumpsall near the existing City College and popular facilities like the library and leisure centre. It will replace Woodlands Road stop, which is underused and poorly located. Queen’s Road stop will replace the present staff halt and the closest stop to the Museum of Transport.

However, local residents disagree that the station is "underused and poorly located" and consider it indefensible, at a time of economic stringency, to spend two million pounds of taxpayers' money moving a station 300 metres and over 2000 have signed a petition to that effect

Woodlands Road railway station in 1989

External links

• Woodlands Road Stop Information
• Woodlands Road area map

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

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

Preceding station		Manchester Metrolink		Following station
Victoria towards Altrincham		Altrincham - Bury Line		Abraham Moss towards Bury
Victoria towards Piccadilly		Bury - Piccadilly Line