Chorlton-cum-Hardy railway station opened on 1 January 1880 by the Midland Railway on the Manchester South District Railway. It later became Cheshire Lines Committee and closed on 2 January 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe,[2] though the line through Fallowfield remained open to freight until the 1980s. Until the mid-20th century the station yard supplied coal to the district.[3] Land to the north-east of the track originally acquired for the purpose of doubling it was eventually sold off for development.
The station was mentioned in the 1964 song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann, which was written to lament the loss of stations resulting from the Beeching cuts:
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat, At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
Chorlton station was subsequently demolished and a Morrisons (originally Safeway) supermarket and car park built in its place, although the track bed remained extant to the side of the supermarket and part of one of the platforms survives next to the supermarket building. The derelict line became overgrown until 2001, when the track bed of the old Fallowfield Loop Line branch running east of Chorlton towards Alexandra Park and Fallowfield was converted to the Fallowfield Loopcycle track. The route is run by Sustrans and forms part of Routes 6 and 60 of the National Cycle Network.[4][5] The remaining Cheshire Lines Committee lines from Chorlton from Manchester Central towards Disbury remained disused and overgrown for another 10 years.
Manchester Metrolink stationEdit
Proposals to link Chorlton to a light rail system had been put forward since the 1980s,[6] but remained unfunded for over 20 years. The extension that was originally proposed would have taken over the disused tracks of the Cheshire Lines Committee as far as East Didsbury.
In 2006, it was announced that the first phase of the "Big Bang" Metrolink expansion project (Phase 3A) would go ahead, including the extension to St Werburgh's Road.[7] Following the rejection of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund in a public referendum in 2008, extension of the line to East Didsbury (Phase 3B) was completed with funding from national and local government.[8][9][10]
Construction of the line began in April 2009 and it opened in July 2011.[1] The first services towards East Didsbury began in June 2013.
Chorlton is served by the three lines; Rochdale to East Didsbury, Shaw and Crompton to East Didsbury and Victoria to Manchester Airport. Each line operates at a frequency of one tram every 12 minutes providing a combined frequency of approximately one tram every 4 minutes in both directions. On the Rochdale to East Didsbury line, the last evening north-bound services (the last 2–3 dependent on day of week) terminate at Manchester Victoria.[11]
Before the East Didsbury extension was completed in May 2013, southeast bound services terminated at St Werburgh's Road. An extension from there to Manchester Airport was opened on 3 November 2014. St Werburgh's road acts as the interchange station for services between the East Didsbury and Manchester Airport forks of the line. Northbound trams from Manchester Airport terminate at Victoria station.
Service patternEdit
12 minute service to Shaw and Crompton with double trams in the peak
12 minute service to Manchester Victoria with single trams (every 20 minutes before 6 am)
6 minute service to East Didsbury with double trams in the peak
12 minute service to Manchester Airport with single trams (every 20 minutes before 6 am)
Connecting bus routesEdit
Chorlton station is served by several bus services either outside the stop or in Chorlton centre. Stagecoach Manchester service 85 both stop outside the stop and run eastbound to Manchester the 85 terminates nearby at Chorlton bus station. Stagecoach/service 168 also stops outside and runs from Chorlton to Ashton-under-Lyne via Fallowfield, Longsight, Gorton and Droylsden. M travel service 276, which also stops outside, runs to Withington Community Hospital and to Trafford General Hospital via Stretford.
Other services that stop nearby are Stagecoach service 24, which runs to Stockport and MediaCityUK, Stagecoach services 23/23A/25, which also run to Trafford Centre and Stockport, and Stagecoach service 86, which runs to Manchester.[12]
GalleryEdit
The derelict station awaiting redevelopment
1914 map of South Manchester railways
Metrolink construction work on the line near Chorlton
Map of the planned South Manchester line extensions
October 2010
ReferencesEdit
^ ab. Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
^Price, Bevan; Wright, Paul (16 May 2009). "Disused Stations Site Record: Chorlton-cum-Hardy". Retrieved 10 December 2009.
^Burton, Nick (ed.) (199-) Chorlton cum Hardy and Stretford, 1905. (Old Ordnance Survey maps. Lancashire sheet 111.10) Gateshead: Alan Godfrey (includes historical survey and extracts from Slater's directory, 1910) (Chorlton was not part of the City of Manchester until 1904.)
^. Sustrans. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
^"Friends of the Fallowfield Loop". Retrieved 14 March 2013.
^Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (1984), Light Rapid Transit in Greater Manchester, GMPTE – publicity brochure
^"Metrolink extension is announced". BBC News. 6 July 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
^Linton, Deborah (13 May 2009). "£1.4bn transport deal unveiled". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
^ "Tram line extension is approved". BBC News. 13 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
^"Metrolink: back on track?". BBC Manchester. 13 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
^ "Metrolink – Tram Times – Chorlton". Metrolink. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
^. Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
Butt, R. V. J. (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens. ISBN1-85260-508-1
External linksEdit
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Chorlton area map
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Chorlton-cum-Hardy railway station in Disused Stations database
October 21, 2023
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Chorlton is a stop on the South Manchester Line SML and Airport Line of the Metrolink light rail system in Chorlton cum Hardy Manchester England It was built as part of Phase 3a of the network s expansion and opened on 7 July 2011 on a section of the former Cheshire Lines Committee railway 1 ChorltonMetrolink stationGeneral informationLocationChorlton cum Hardy ManchesterEnglandCoordinates53 26 34 N 2 16 25 W 53 44283 N 2 27351 W 53 44283 2 27351Grid referenceSJ819940Line s South Manchester LinePlatforms2Other informationStatusIn operationFare zone2HistoryOriginal companyCheshire Lines CommitteePre groupingCheshire Lines CommitteePost groupingCheshire Lines Committee British Rail London Midland Region Key dates1 January 1880Opened2 January 1967Closed7 July 2011ReopenedServicesPreceding station Manchester Metrolink Following stationSt Werburgh s Roadtowards East Didsbury East Didsbury Shaw and Crompton Firswoodtowards Shaw and CromptonEast Didsbury Rochdale Firswoodtowards Rochdale Town CentreSt Werburgh s Roadtowards Manchester Airport Manchester Airport Victoria Firswoodtowards VictoriaManchester Airport Deansgate Castlefield Firswoodtowards Deansgate CastlefieldDisused railwaysManchester CentralLine and station closed Great Central RailwayFallowfield Loop Wilbraham RoadLine and station closedManchester CentralLine and station closed Midland RailwaySouth District Railway Withington and West DidsburyLine and station closedRoute mapLegendto Rochdale0 00 Deansgate Castlefield Deansgate Bridgewater Canal0 03 Cornbrookto Eccles MediaCityUK amp Trafford CentreCLC Liverpool Manchester line0 06 Trafford Barto Altrincham0 09 Firswood0 11 Chorlton0 13 St Werburgh s Roadto Manchester Airport0 15 Withington0 16 Burton Road0 17 West Didsbury0 19 Didsbury VillageStyal Line0 21 East Didsbury East Didsbury This diagram viewtalkeditLocation Contents 1 History 1 1 Railway station 1 2 Manchester Metrolink station 2 Services 3 Service pattern 4 Connecting bus routes 5 Gallery 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditRailway station Edit nbsp The former Fallowfield loop line Chorlton cum Hardy railway station opened on 1 January 1880 by the Midland Railway on the Manchester South District Railway It later became Cheshire Lines Committee and closed on 2 January 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe 2 though the line through Fallowfield remained open to freight until the 1980s Until the mid 20th century the station yard supplied coal to the district 3 Land to the north east of the track originally acquired for the purpose of doubling it was eventually sold off for development The station was mentioned in the 1964 song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann which was written to lament the loss of stations resulting from the Beeching cuts No churns no porter no cat on a seat At Chorlton cum Hardy or Chester le Street Chorlton station was subsequently demolished and a Morrisons originally Safeway supermarket and car park built in its place although the track bed remained extant to the side of the supermarket and part of one of the platforms survives next to the supermarket building The derelict line became overgrown until 2001 when the track bed of the old Fallowfield Loop Line branch running east of Chorlton towards Alexandra Park and Fallowfield was converted to the Fallowfield Loop cycle track The route is run by Sustrans and forms part of Routes 6 and 60 of the National Cycle Network 4 5 The remaining Cheshire Lines Committee lines from Chorlton from Manchester Central towards Disbury remained disused and overgrown for another 10 years Manchester Metrolink station Edit Proposals to link Chorlton to a light rail system had been put forward since the 1980s 6 but remained unfunded for over 20 years The extension that was originally proposed would have taken over the disused tracks of the Cheshire Lines Committee as far as East Didsbury In 2006 it was announced that the first phase of the Big Bang Metrolink expansion project Phase 3A would go ahead including the extension to St Werburgh s Road 7 Following the rejection of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund in a public referendum in 2008 extension of the line to East Didsbury Phase 3B was completed with funding from national and local government 8 9 10 Construction of the line began in April 2009 and it opened in July 2011 1 The first services towards East Didsbury began in June 2013 Services EditManchester South District LineLegend nbsp nbsp nbsp Manchester Central Metrolink to City Centre nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Deansgate Castlefield nbsp Deansgate nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Bridgewater Canal nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Cornbrook nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp CLC Liverpool Manchester linesMetrolink Eccles amp Trafford Park Lines nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp CLC Liverpool Stockport line nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Trafford Bar nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp MSJ amp ARMetrolink Altrincham Line nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Firswood nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Chorlton nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp St Werburgh s Road nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Metrolink Airport Line nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Withington nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Burton Road nbsp nbsp nbsp Withington and Albert Park nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp West Didsbury nbsp nbsp nbsp Didsbury nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Didsbury Village nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp LNWR Styal Line nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp East Didsbury nbsp nbsp nbsp Heaton Mersey nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Stockport Tiviot Dale Hope Valley line via Marple nbsp nbsp nbsp River Mersey nbsp nbsp Cheadle Heath nbsp nbsp nbsp LNWR to Stockport Edgeley nbsp nbsp nbsp LNWR Stafford Manchester line nbsp nbsp Hazel Grove nbsp to the Hope Valley line via Disley TunnelKey nbsp nbsp Former MSDR station 1880 1967 nbsp nbsp nbsp Metrolink route through former MSDR station 2013 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Metrolink stop on former MSDR line 2013 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Metrolink stop on former MSDR station 2013 This diagram viewtalkeditChorlton is served by the three lines Rochdale to East Didsbury Shaw and Crompton to East Didsbury and Victoria to Manchester Airport Each line operates at a frequency of one tram every 12 minutes providing a combined frequency of approximately one tram every 4 minutes in both directions On the Rochdale to East Didsbury line the last evening north bound services the last 2 3 dependent on day of week terminate at Manchester Victoria 11 Before the East Didsbury extension was completed in May 2013 southeast bound services terminated at St Werburgh s Road An extension from there to Manchester Airport was opened on 3 November 2014 St Werburgh s road acts as the interchange station for services between the East Didsbury and Manchester Airport forks of the line Northbound trams from Manchester Airport terminate at Victoria station Service pattern Edit12 minute service to Shaw and Crompton with double trams in the peak 12 minute service to Rochdale Town Centre with double trams in the peak 12 minute service to Manchester Victoria with single trams every 20 minutes before 6 am 6 minute service to East Didsbury with double trams in the peak 12 minute service to Manchester Airport with single trams every 20 minutes before 6 am Connecting bus routes EditChorlton station is served by several bus services either outside the stop or in Chorlton centre Stagecoach Manchester service 85 both stop outside the stop and run eastbound to Manchester the 85 terminates nearby at Chorlton bus station Stagecoach service 168 also stops outside and runs from Chorlton to Ashton under Lyne via Fallowfield Longsight Gorton and Droylsden M travel service 276 which also stops outside runs to Withington Community Hospital and to Trafford General Hospital via Stretford Other services that stop nearby are Stagecoach service 24 which runs to Stockport and MediaCityUK Stagecoach services 23 23A 25 which also run to Trafford Centre and Stockport and Stagecoach service 86 which runs to Manchester 12 Gallery Edit nbsp The derelict station awaiting redevelopment nbsp 1914 map of South Manchester railways nbsp Metrolink construction work on the line near Chorlton nbsp Map of the planned South Manchester line extensions nbsp October 2010References Edit a b Metrolink s new Chorlton line opens for business Transport for Greater Manchester Archived from the original on 17 July 2011 Retrieved 6 July 2011 Price Bevan Wright Paul 16 May 2009 Disused Stations Site Record Chorlton cum Hardy Retrieved 10 December 2009 Burton Nick ed 199 Chorlton cum Hardy and Stretford 1905 Old Ordnance Survey maps Lancashire sheet 111 10 Gateshead Alan Godfrey includes historical survey and extracts from Slater s directory 1910 Chorlton was not part of the City of Manchester until 1904 Fallowfield Loopline Sustrans Archived from the original on 29 March 2013 Retrieved 14 March 2013 Friends of the Fallowfield Loop Retrieved 14 March 2013 Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive 1984 Light Rapid Transit in Greater Manchester GMPTE publicity brochure Metrolink extension is announced BBC News 6 July 2006 Retrieved 28 December 2008 Linton Deborah 13 May 2009 1 4bn transport deal unveiled Manchester Evening News Retrieved 17 May 2009 Tram line extension is approved BBC News 13 May 2009 Retrieved 17 May 2009 Metrolink back on track BBC Manchester 13 May 2009 Retrieved 17 May 2009 Metrolink Tram Times Chorlton Metrolink Retrieved 13 February 2013 Transport for Greater Manchester Journey Planning Network Maps Transport for Greater Manchester Archived from the original on 2 November 2012 Retrieved 10 September 2012 Butt R V J 1995 The Directory of Railway Stations Sparkford Patrick Stephens ISBN 1 85260 508 1External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chorlton Metrolink station Metrolink stop information Chorlton area map Manchester Metrolink Extension Project map of the plans Urban Transport Technology Chorlton cum Hardy railway station in Disused Stations database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chorlton tram stop amp oldid 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