Manchester Metrolink Engineering Work: Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 June

Posted on Tuesday 11 June 2013 by Gareth Prior

There will be no trams between Bury and Victoria on Saturday 15 June and between Bury and Piccadilly and Central Park and Piccadilly on Sunday 16 June because of further engineering works. Replacement bus services will again be put into operation with both days seeing a service running from Bury to Piccadilly and then on the Sunday a bus will run from Central Park to Piccadilly. Neither of these buses will serve Shudehill and Market Street.

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9 Responses to Manchester Metrolink Engineering Work: Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 June

  1. Ken Walker says:
    Wednesday 12 June 2013 at 12:39

    This is going to become more commonplace in the future as the work on Victoria station roof is now extending over the Metrolink platform.

  2. GLYN R HILL says:
    Wednesday 12 June 2013 at 21:26

    the TMS is being commisioned on the Bury Line this weekend and the Altrincam line before the end of the Month, with that all the Metrolink will be TMS.

    • freel07 says:
      Friday 14 June 2013 at 19:03

      That is highly improbable as none of the equipment has yet been installed on either the Bury or Altrincham lines yet.

      The next area to be converted is due to be Deansgate Castlefield to Cornbrook next month.

    • Danny says:
      Saturday 15 June 2013 at 09:21

      This simply is untrue. Nice try at being a ‘troll’ but we’re all more knowledgeable than that!

  3. Bob says:
    Friday 14 June 2013 at 18:48

    Erm… are you sure about that Glyn? Because I’m not…!

  4. Ken Walker says:
    Sunday 16 June 2013 at 09:27

    So why WAS the Bury line closed on Saturday if not TMS work?

    • roger woodhead says:
      Monday 17 June 2013 at 03:33

      The Bury line was closed on Saturday so that those of us using the tram from Altrincham to Piccadilly or Victoria could travel on T68/A trams which covered most workings. Only 2 M5000 were seen by me. The Altrincham line was like it was before the M5000 blackened the scene i.e . trams had seats which were comfortable to sit on (an overheard passenger comment). That is my opinion as to why the Bury line was shut!!

    • freel07 says:
      Monday 17 June 2013 at 19:21

      More work at Victoria and I believe some work on Queens Road stop although that needs confirmation.

      • Colin Smith says:
        Monday 17 June 2013 at 20:43

        Travelled several times on the Bury line this afternoon. Work undertaken over the weekend was relaying track between Buckley Wells and the approaches to Bury station. There is still some fettling, mainly tamping, to be completed there. Another stretch relaid was between Abraham Moss and Crumpsall on the inbound side. Some additional scaffold has been erected at Victoria but I couldn’t detect any work having been done at Queen’s Road. There is some evidence of working starting to prepare the site for the new stop, but that situation has not changed in over a week. Finally, I noted that the overbridges between Whitefield and Radcliffe have all been scaffolded out. It would look like this is to facilitate repainting into corporate colours.

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