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DEMOLITION CLEARS WAY FOR NEW DEPOT Engineers have finished clearing the site at Old Trafford in Manchester where the new tram depot for the Metrolink fleet will be built. The final building on the site – a former bakery and packaging company – has now been demolished and construction is expected to start by the summer on the depot.
The new depot will have space for 32 trams and will cover more than 67,000 square metres (the size of ten football pitches). The depot is part of the £600 million package of funding to double the size of Metrolink with lines to Oldham and Rochdale, Droylsden, Chorlton and MediaCity UK. MPact-Thales have been appointed to build the lines as well as the depot.
Philip Purdy, GMPTE’s Metrolink Director, said: “I'm pleased that work to clear the way for the new depot in Old Trafford has now been completed with the demolition of the last derelict building on the site. The site of the depot is ideal as it's sandwiched between the tram line to Altrincham and the new line to Chorlton in South Manchester. We're also planning to expand our original depot in North Manchester to house some of the new trams."
The first of the new trams are expected to arrive in Manchester this summer.
Source: GMPTE
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