Quite a few people have been commenting that the new M5000 trams seem not to be on the Altrincham Line any more.
We’ve been doing a bit of digging and have heard the following, though it may not be correct ….
Apparently, it seems the M5000s ride very roughly once they travel over 35mph. On the [...]
Sale Beer Festival is open tomorrow and Saturday and only a few minutes walk from Sale Metrolink station. Opening Times : Fri 17:00 – 23:00, Sat 12:00-23:00.
There are 30 Real Ales from around the North-West on tap. Entrance is £5 on the door.
Remember from our line to ask for a through ticket [...]
Tram/Train for our line would be brilliant!
After all the disappointment of having our services downgraded:
- when the line through Sale was handed over to Metrolink in 1990, and then again:
- in December 2008, when the Department for Transport (DfT) allocated more of the line capacity between Stockport and Manchester for “more and faster trains to [...]
The Government has just approved £121m for two more Metrolink extensions.
The proposed 4.5km Chorlton to East Didsbury extension, on a former railway line, will include five new stops connecting Chorlton with Withington, West Didsbury, Burton Road Didsbury Village and East Didsbury.
The Ashton extension will see 3.9 km of new track laid and four new [...]
End of the line for station canopies?
That’s the headline in the Altrincham Messenger about the redevelopment plans for Altrincham Interchange.
To read the article complete with a picture of our very own Andrew Macfarlane, click here.
What do you think?
We hear Metrolink will start running their new trams next week. Apparently they now have seven – numbers 3001 to 3007.
If you get a good picture of one, email it to me – john.oates@mcrua.org.uk – we’ll put the best ones up on the Blog.
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As you can see, I’ve added pictures sent in on 6/1/10 [...]
I hear today from Andrew that a 3000 series new tram ventured onto the Altrincham line. I understand that up until now they have only been test running between the depot at Queen’s Road and Bury.
Here’s a picture I took on my phone of 3001 progressing down Mosley Street late lunchtime. It may [...]
Metrolink came back to Manchester City Centre yesterday after the first major rebuild of the most heavily used part of the system since it opened in the early 1990s.
Our trains have seen many more using them from Altrincham to Piccadilly whilst the central section of Metrolink has been closed.
It will be interesting to see if [...]
An article on Tram/Train appeared in our Summer 2009 “Rail Report”.
In brief “tram/train” is a concept where the “trains” involved can run on both conventional (heavy rail) railway lines as well as on tramway systems with their lighter rail and tighter curves. The best example of this is Karlsruhe in Germany, where this has [...]
Our Chairman writes:
During August the Metrolink Service out of Altrincham is closed for essential upgrades and work to connect up to MediaCityUK and Chorlton.
Northern Rail are doing their best to accomodate the increase in passengers on the Mid Cheshire Line to Chester.
Let us know how this is affecting you?
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