{"id":57295,"date":"2025-02-18T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57295"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:54:56","slug":"another-metrolink-closure-on-the-way-for-major-engineering-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57295","title":{"rendered":"Another Metrolink closure on the way for major engineering works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The investment in maintaining the Manchester Metrolink infrastructure will be continuing this spring with a month long closure of the original city centre line via Market Street and Shudehill in March and April 2025.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The work will be taking place between Tuesday 25<sup>th<\/sup> March and Wednesday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> April and will see rail replacement on Market Street and High Street\/Church Street. During this period no trams will be able to run on 1CC with services between St Peter\u2019s Square and Victoria all diverted via 2CC.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be some other service changes in this time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All services from Altrincham will run to Bury via 2CC<\/li>\n<li>Services from The Trafford Centre will be extended to Etihad Campus<\/li>\n<li>Eccles to Ashton-under-Lyne service will all travel via MediaCityUK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Would be passengers are being advised to complete their cross-city journeys by using Free Bus 1 and 2 services. There will also be a replacement bus \u2013 but this will only run outside of the Free Bus operating times. Metrolink tickets will not be valid on any other bus service.<\/p>\n<p>Normal services will resume from Thursday 24<sup>th<\/sup> April.<\/p>\n<p>There will then be a further closure on the Oldham and Rochdale line over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> to Monday 5<sup>th<\/sup> May). This will see rail renewal between Westwood and Derker and will mean there will be no trams running from Freehold to Rochdale Town Centre. There will be a bus replacement service on which Metrolink tickets will be valid, they won\u2019t be valid on any other bus service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investment in maintaining the Manchester Metrolink infrastructure will be continuing this spring with a month long closure of the original city centre line via Market Street and Shudehill in March and April 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57296,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57295\/revisions\/57296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}