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[r02bapurdie]

Originally Posted by kriis101

Just wondering, where is the Mumps turnback crossover? Is it before the stop or after it so it operates like St Werburgh's??

Is after Mumps stop before it reach the road Kriis.

[kriis101]

Originally Posted by r02bapurdie

Is after Mumps stop before it reach the road Kriis.

ah thanks

[SF07]

^ that's a bit more clearer. Oldham Mumps.

[wythenshawe_tram_fan]

I think that 'tagline/line' is just the overhead wire in shot!

[r02bapurdie]

Originally Posted by wythenshawe_tram_fan

I think that 'tagline/line' is just the overhead wire in shot!

Is it picture called Oldham Mumps stop 5? if so then yea wythenshawe u allway seen them going past Freehold alot.

[Freel07]

Originally Posted by Johnny de Rivative

It shows something which is infuriating local residents again at present, namely no less than three new contraflows between Clayton and Edge Lane, long after all the road works appeared to be finished. But all that's happened in each location is that a little oblong piece of tarmac and re-bar has been cut away between the rails, and then apparently left unattended with nobody doing anything, and causing humungous delays for about the last two months!

Probably a question for Freel, but I am wondering whether it is something to do with TMS, as the cut-outs have a little box in the middle, and are in advance of traffic lights which might be called ahead by the approaching LRV?

I'd noticed those work sites over the last few weeks and wondered what they were for. I don't think they are anything to do with TMS as the street sections generally just use cable loops laid between the rails and radio based 'virtual' loops. I think it's more likely they may be rail drainage boxes where the rail groove drains into the drainage system.

[ScouseinManc]

Just got back from working daan saaf & had 3 pages of brilliant updates from you all.

Great stuff - thanks. Really love the fly-thru's too Disco - well done

[Freel07]

Originally Posted by DiscoSteve

There you go! 15 minutes of On Street Tram Route, all the way from Asda to Ikea ;-)
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9bbpNJKONc

Great videos Steve. I drive across Ashton Moss every day in my D3 and get caught up in the works both there and on Altrincham Road travelling to and from work.

[High-Fi]

Thanks for the picture updates Johnny and Andrew - much appreciated.

Originally Posted by Freel07

Great videos Steve. I drive across Ashton Moss every day in my D3 and get caught up in the works both there and on Altrincham Road travelling to and from work.

I second that Steve - great stuff. Ashton Moss will be my station of choice (I live over the hill to the left). I manage to avoid the chaos of Droylsden and Ashton during my commute but get snarled up (in a minor sense) on Oldham bypass on my way to Heywood.

[Johnny de Rivative]

# Cheers Freel. (Whatever it is, I wish they would get a move on and open the road again!!)

# Yes it’s ‘Oldham Mumps’ simpliciter. The phantom ‘strap line’ is the overhead line! But it does seem to imply that life as we know it is imminent, cheers ro2.

# A few bits and pieces. Disco’s fly-through reminded me that Audenshaw will soon be linked up at the Western end :-



And I will forgive them for this ugly barrier between Audenshaw and the Snipe, if, as it appears, it is going to become a vertical green. Please, please do the same at Piccadilly Gardens! :-



Zapping across to Wythenshawe, work has started on the new Interchange at Leningrad Square :-



And back to Edge Lane for another sunset! :-



Does the coming of Metrolink stimulate regeneration? The shops next to the pub on the left have been derelict for years, but are now being done up with flats above. . .

[Rooboot]

WILL BROUGHTON IN SALFORD EVER GET THE TRAM???

IT REALLY REALLY NEEDS IT, PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN MANCHESTER IS AWFUL

[Tony_H1]

Greetings from Adelaide SA! First time ive been able to check the Metrolink construction thread for three weeks! Talk about Withdrawl simptoms LOL

Its all go it would seem, Glad to see I didnt miss the Oldham line opening while I was away

Keep up the good work all, be back on home turf next week.

[markydeedrop]

In relation to the Audenshaw stop JdR. Is the land next to the stop going to be used for a park-and-ride once the contractors have moved on and the line is open?

[Johnny de Rivative]

Originally Posted by Tony_H1

Greetings from Adelaide SA! First time ive been able to check the Metrolink construction thread for three weeks! Talk about Withdrawl simptoms LOL

Its all go it would seem, Glad to see I didnt miss the Oldham line opening while I was away

Keep up the good work all, be back on home turf next week.

# Greetings, Tony - I thought things had gone a bit quiet on the 'Local Lad' front - not so local at the moment! Did you get to see the tram system in Melbourne? - probably the one thing which would tempt me down under ( apart from Neighbours and Home and Away of course!).

# Markydeedrop - yes there would certainly be plenty of room there - I have a note somewhere of how many 1930's semis they demolished on that island, far more than apparently neessary for a tramstop. But I don't think a car park would be allowed in the middle of a gyratory, unfortunately, seems a waste.

Here's a few more comments I am making on my current revision of back pictures from the construction process :-

This 1997 render of Audenshaw tram station looks back towards Droylsden – (the big Co-op Hall on Market Street is top right-of-centre), and Manchester on the far horizon. This spot involved one of the largest demolitions of residential property, including the filling station and all the white rendered semi-detached houses behind it, within the gyratory and elsewhere :-



Apart from the tramstop, I wonder what will be in the big open space thus created? There seem to be some mysterious square buildings within the trees . . .



Ten years later, looking North-West in 2007, the whole gyratory area has been cleared ready and waiting (compare the half-rendered semi on the far left with the previous visuals). But by this time no funding was on the table for Phase 3b, Phase 3a having been separately re-instated in 2006. Prior to Darling’s earlier cancellation of the whole thing in 2004, GMPTE had already spent £200 million on advance works such as this, but it was 2010 before this area and the rest of 3b was finally ‘signed off’ for construction. I guess sometimes you have to take risks, and sometimes they pay off!! No such luck befell Mayne’s buses, however, which at the time of this photo were in the last year of plying their domestic hinterland :-

(I am also looking at how slender and dainty those ohle poles look in the 'before-and-after' renders!)

[iheartthenew]

all that building work and still no-bodys cleared that bit of yellow pipe out of that front garden

Going back a few posts, to the ugly barrier between Audenshaw and Snipe, I believe it may be an accoustic wall that greenery can grow up. Not only should it lessen the visual impact but quieten things down a bit for the houses the other side, though I'm suprised they've used it here, I've not seen them bother anywhere else on the network!

[dpjones1978]

Nice pics of mumps tram station, just needs bananas now.

[M60]

Originally Posted by Rooboot

WILL BROUGHTON IN SALFORD EVER GET THE TRAM???

IT REALLY REALLY NEEDS IT, PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN MANCHESTER IS AWFUL

Under the 'Transport Innovation Fund' bid which came with the congestion charge, 'Bus Rapid Transit' was proposed for Bury New Road from the City Centre to Prestwich.

I haven't heard any proposals for anything else (such as Metrolink) to be rolled-out to Broughton. But never say never.

[metman123]

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[iheartthenew]

wrong thread?

[Backwater]

Originally Posted by Johnny de Rivative

And I will forgive them for this ugly barrier between Audenshaw and the Snipe, if, as it appears, it is going to become a vertical green.

That's been there yonks.