Sale tram stop
Template:Infobox Manchester Metrolink station
Sale is a tram stop on the Altrincham Line of the Metrolink light-rail system in Sale, Greater Manchester, England. It opened on 15 June 1992 as part of Phase 1 of Metrolink's expansion. Prior to this it was a railway station.
History
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The station originally opened as Sale on 20 July 1849 by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR). Renamed as Sale Moor in 1856, as Sale & Ashton on Mersey in 1883 and as Sale in 1931. Closed as a British Rail station on 24 December 1991. Reopened as a Metrolink station on 15 June 1992.
Sale Station appears during the opening titles of Pro Evolution Soccer 2.[1]
Services
Sale is located on the Altrincham Line with trams towards Altrincham stopping every 6 minutes during the day, Mondays to Saturdays, every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday evenings and Sunday daytime and every 15 minutes Sunday evenings. Trams also head towards Manchester and Bury, with the Monday to Saturday daytime service running every 12 minutes each to Manchester Piccadilly or Bury, while evening and Sundays journeys run to Piccadilly only with journeys to Bury requiring a change of trams at Piccadilly Gardens.[2]
Service pattern
- 10 trams per hour to Altrincham
- 5 tph to Etihad Campus
- 5 tph to Deansgate-Castlefield (Daytimes only)
The normal pattern is 5tph to Piccadilly and 5tph to Bury, however, due to the Metrolink currently currently operating a reduced service between Deansgate-Castlefield and Piccadilly Gardens, the services terminate at Etihad Campus and Deansgate-Castlefield.
Connecting bus routes
Sale station is well served by bus services, due to the close proximity to the town centre, with several services stopping outside the station and some services stopping around the town centre.[3]
Services that stop outside the station:
- Arriva North West service 18 to Altrincham via Wythenshawe and Manchester Airport
- Arriva service 18 to Trafford Centre via Stretford
- Arriva/Stagecoach Manchester service 19 to Manchester Airport via Wythenshawe
- Arriva/Stagecoach service 19 to Altrincham via Ashton-upon-Mersey
- First Greater Manchester service 41 and Stagecoach service X41 to Manchester Piccadilly via Northenden and Fallowfield
- First service 41 and Stagecoach service X41 to Altrincham
- Go Goodwins/Stagecoach service 99 to Manchester Piccadilly via Northenden
- Go Goodwins services 266/267 to Altrincham via Timperley
- Go Goodwins service 268 to Wythenshawe
- Go Goodwins service 268 to Urmston via Stretford
- Stagecoach service X5 to Stockport via Sharston
References
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtBqQBL5go at 0:14
- ^ "Metrolink - Tram Times - Sale". Metrolink. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- ^ "Network Maps". Transport for Greater Manchester. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
External links
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- Use dmy dates from October 2010
- Tram stops in Trafford
- Former Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway stations
- Tram stops on the Altrincham to Bury line
- Railway stations opened in 1849
- Railway stations closed in 1991
- Railway stations opened in 1992
- Tram stops on the Altrincham to Piccadilly line
- Sale, Greater Manchester
- 1849 establishments in England