“Manchester Metrolink Then & Now” time again as we continue our look at the network before or during construction and after trams started to run.
This week we’re again at Brantingham Road on the East Didsbury and Manchester Airport lines to St Werburgh’s Road, but this time we look towards the Chorlton stop. As we wrote last week this first welcomed Metrolink on 7th July 2011 – at that time it was just part of the line as far as St Werburgh’s Road with both the section to East Didsbury and the Manchester Airport yet to come.

This first image makes you very glad that they have clearly sorted out the drainage on the old Manchester South District Railway trackbed! Resembling a river we are looking towards where the stop at Chorlton would be constructed with the date given as 16th August 2009.

10th July 2011 and things look a lot drier! We again look from the same overbridge as a tram heads away from us with a service which will go as far as it could at this time – St Werburgh’s Road. Chorlton tramstop is out of sight around the corner. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)