Manchester Metrolink Manchester-Ashton Line Stations - Manchester Piccadilly Station, New Islington Metrolink Station (Paperback)

Chapters: Manchester Piccadilly Station, New Islington Metrolink Station, Droylsden Metrolink Station, Holt Town Metrolink Station, Sportcity-Velodrome Metrolink Station, Clayton Metrolink Station, Sportcity-Stadium Metrolink Station, Ashton Moss Metrolink Station, Ashton West Metrolink Station, Ashton-Under-Lyne Metrolink Station, Audenshaw Metrolink Station, Cemetery Road Metrolink Station, Edge Lane Metrolink Station. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Manchester Piccadilly station - The station was originally opened on 8 May 1842 and was initially known as Store Street station and as Bank Top station. It was the terminus of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, who shared it from August 1844 with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. It was renamed London Road station in 1847, around the time the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was formed (later to become the Great Central Railway). The Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) opened its line from Manchester Oxford Road station to London Road on 1 August 1849 and built its own platforms adjacent to the main part of the station. These platforms were from then on referred to as the MSJAR or South Junction platforms. During the early 1880s the whole of the station was enlarged. The MSJAR platforms and the bridge over Fairfield Street were demolished and the new island platform, on new girder bridges, was opened on 16 May 1882. During the first two decades of the 20th century, London Road station was served by the London