Over the weekend of 28th and 29th June Network Rail were undertaking engineering works at Victoria Station on behalf of Manchester Metrolink which should have seen the single line section swapped over. Unfortunately this work overran drastically which has meant that no services at all have been able to run through Victoria on Monday 30th June or Tuesday 1st July and at the time of writing it is not confirmed just when Metrolink will be able to resume services.<\/p>\n
Metrolink services have been running from Bury to Crumpsall and Rochdale to Central Park with replacement buses in operation into Manchester city centre. All services from Altrincham and East Didsbury have been diverted to Piccadilly. In addition to the replacement buses Metrolink tickets have been accepted on local bus tickets and also on Northern Rail services between Rochdale and Victoria.<\/p>\n
Once Network Rail have completed the works Metrolink need to carry out vital inspection and testing operations before passenger services can resume. Network Rail put extra resources on the job when it was clear the overrun looked like entering a second day but despite this the work still meant a complete second day was lost for services.<\/p>\n
Network Rail finally managed completed the work overnight on Tuesday 1st\/Wednesday 2nd July and handed the site over to Metrolink who then able to run their tests before clearing the line for passenger operations. Following the succesful completion of these tests normal Metrolink services resumed from the start of Wednesday 2nd July. Trams are now running on a new, permanent, track alignment although single line operation remains in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the weekend of 28th and 29th June Network Rail were undertaking engineering works at Victoria Station on behalf of Manchester Metrolink which should have seen the single line section swapped over. Unfortunately this work overran drastically which has meant … Continue reading