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Template:Infobox Manchester Metrolink station Firswood is a tram stop on the South Manchester Line (SML) and Airport Line of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. Located in the Firswood area of Trafford, it was built as part of Phase 3a of the network's expansion, and opened on 7 July 2011.[1]

Firswood Metrolink station is located on a section of the former Cheshire Lines Committee railway line, in a cutting adjacent to St John Vianney School on Rye Bank Road. The stop provides access to both Firswood and Whalley Range.

History

See also: History of Manchester Metrolink

The station opened on 7 July 2011.[1] and is the first newly constructed station on the new South Manchester Metrolink line out of Manchester. Firswood is a new station on a re-opened railway line, the Cheshire Lines Committee line, which closed to passenger service in 1967. It was planned to re-open the line as part of the expansion of the Manchester Metrolink tram network.[2] Proposals to re-open the line have been put forward since the 1980s,[3] but remained unfunded until the 2000s. The line extension which was originally proposed would take over the disused tracks of the Cheshire Lines Committee as far as East Didsbury.

In 2006, it was announced that Phase 3A would go ahead, including the extension of the network as far St Werburgh's Road.[4] Following the rejection of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund in a public referendum in 2008, extension of the line as East Didsbury (Phase 3B) will now go ahead with funding from national and local government.[2][5][6]

Construction of the line began in April 2009 and the new line became operational in July 2011.[1]

Services

Firswood is located on the South Manchester Line with trams towards Shaw and Crompton via Victoria and Oldham and to East Didsbury running every 12 minutes Monday-Saturdays and Sunday daytime and every 15 minutes Sunday early mornings and evenings.[7] Services extended from St Werburgh's Road to East Didsbury on 23 May 2013 and, from 3 November 2014, services ran to Manchester Airport from Cornbrook.

Service pattern

Connecting bus routes

Firswood is not served by any direct bus service but some services stop nearby to the stop. Stagecoach Manchester service 15 stops on King's Road and runs westbound to Flixton via Stretford and Urmston and eastbound to Manchester.[8]

  • Construction work on the line near Chorlton
    Construction work on the line near Chorlton
  • Map of the South Manchester line extensions
    Map of the South Manchester line extensions
  • Under construction in June 2010
    Under construction in June 2010
  • Firswood tram stop, in August 2012
    Firswood tram stop, in August 2012

References

  1. ^ a b c "Metrolink's new Chorlton line opens for business". Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  2. ^ a b Linton, Deborah (13 May 2009). "£1.4bn transport deal unveiled". Manchester Evening News. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  3. ^ Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (1984). "Light Rapid Transit in Greater Manchester" (Document). GMPTE. - publicity brochure
  4. ^ "Metrolink extension is announced". BBC News. 6 July 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  5. ^ "Tram line extension is approved". BBC News. 13 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  6. ^ "Metrolink: back on track?". BBC Manchester. 13 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  7. ^ "Metrolink - Tram Times - Firswood". Metrolink. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  8. ^ "Transport for Greater Manchester - Journey Planning - Network Maps". Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
Preceding station   Manchester Metrolink   Following station
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Disused railways
Cornbrook
1856–65
Line and station closed 		  Manchester, South Junction
and Altrincham Railway 		  Warwick Road for Old Trafford
Line and station open
Deansgate
1849–56, 1865–1991
Line closed, station open 		   
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