Works to construct the Manchester Metrolink Second City Crossing (2CC) which will increase capacity through the City Centre whilst providing a secondary route for trams running across the city are continuing as show in this photo update provided by Steve Kemp.
Works are underway outside the Royal Exchange Theatre preparing the surface for track laying.
Slightly further along and more progress.
Slightly further back in progress is this section where the surface is still being prepared.
Tracks fully in situ - just waiting for overhead and trams!
The curve from St Peter's Square onto 2CC.
The platforms being constructed at St Peter's Square.
Another view in St Peter's Square of the current state of affairs. (All Photographs by Steve Kemp, 30th April 2016)
Is it the track or are the platforms over the crypt of the former church? Has it been filled in or just roofed over?
The crypt was opened up and investigated by archaeologists before the project started in earnest. It was then capped by a reinforced concrete slab. The current single line which will form 1CC southbound and nearer to Oxford Street becomes the combined 1CC and 2CC southbound line passes over the slab. The trailing points forming the connection between the 2 routes are also over the crypt. It is hard to tell but I am fairly certain from my photos that the southbound platform ends just north of the crypt and the northbound platform is well clear to the west.