Future Plans
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East Didsbury Metrolink station is a future station proposed to be part of Phase 3B of the Manchester Metrolink "Big Bang" extension plans. It will be a newly-built station on the re-opened Cheshire Lines Committee route, which runs under the Styal line.
Located on the east side of the Kingsway, north of Parrs Wood Lane, East Didsbury will the terminus of the Metrolink line. Situated in a cutting, the station will provide access to both the East Didsbury & Heaton Mersey areas of Manchester & Stockport. The Metrolink station will be approximately 200m north-east of the National Rail station of the same name.
All three Didsbury station sites have featured in proposals to extend the Metrolink system. In the 1980s it was first proposed to re-open the CLC line between Chorlton and Didsbury, providing a light-rail service between East Didsbury and central Manchester.
In 2006, it was announced that the CLC line would be re-opened as part of a phased expansion project, dubbed the "Big Bang", and that the extension would initially go only as far as St Werburgh's Road. 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) will now go ahead with funding from national and local government.
Construction of the line through Chorlton began in April 2009 and that part of the new line became operational in July 2011. The extension to East Didsbury is scheduled to open in the summer of 2013. When that happens, passengers will be able to travel on the old rail alignment into Manchester for the first time since 1967.
Read more about this topic: East Didsbury Railway Station
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