Another unsafe building causes Metrolink disruption

Manchester Metrolink services were disrupted for a time during the afternoon of Friday 5th May after the discovery of an unsafe building on Mosely Street, this comes a little over a month since an unsafe building in Rochdale led to services unable to travel through to the Town Centre terminus for over a week. Fortunately this time the building was declared safe within a few hours but not before services through the city centre were severely disrupted, just as well the Second City Crossing is open as it could have been a whole lot worse.

Mosely Street was closed to all traffic from early afternoon until approximately 1630 with a revised Metrolink service operating:

Altrincham to Deansgate-Castlefield

Eccles to Cornbrook via MediaCityUK

Manchester Airport to Firswood

Ashton-under-Lyne to Piccadilly

Bury to Altrincham via Exchange Square

Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury via Exchange Square

Shaw & Crompton to East Didsbury via Exchange Square

The diversion of the Bury to Altrincham service via the Second City Crossing is believed to the first time that an emergency diversion has used 2CC since it opened (there was the planned diversion at the start of April) and really does show the worth of opening this second line through the city.