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Metrolink : Tram Stops : Victoria

Line	Location	Opening date	number of platforms
Bury	Part of National Rail station	6th April 1992	3 only 2 (island platform) in use

Victoria tram stop is located inside Manchester Victoria main line railway station. There are three platforms here—A, B and C—of which 2 are in use. Platform A was originally used by Bury-bound services, but is now out of use. Island platforms B and C are on the site of the former British Rail Bury line platforms, in the terminal platform section of the station. Passengers must cross the Bury-bound track to get to the Metrolink platforms.

Pictures

The exterior of Victoria main line station, proclaiming its origins as the Manchester station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The canopy bears the names of some locations served by this railway company. On the far right is a pedestrian entrance to the station—next to this, just off camera, is where the Metrolink enters the station building

09/10/2004 • 000895

Metrolink platforms B and C at Victoria, inside (and outside) the trainshed covering the bay platforms at the station

09/10/2004 • 000896

Platform A at Victoria, once the platform for Bury trams, is currently out of use due to leaks in the station roof

09/10/2004 • 000897

View of the tram stop platforms from inside Victoria station. The bridge in the background takes Cheetham Hill Road over the tram and railway tracks

03/11/2005 • 002318

Looking towards the city centre inside Victoria station, showing how the tram tracks enter through the side of the building. The tracks in the foreground veer left to the tram stop platforms. On the right is the abandoned platform A

03/11/2005 • 002319

Mainline concourse at Victoria. The Metrolink platforms are off-camera to the right

14/04/2006 • 002649

Victoria station, looking across the concourse to where the Metrolink tracks enter the station. The large brick wall was a stipulation of British Rail, who were apparently afraid that one of the Metrolink units might derail and crash into a train; similarly on the exit from the station heading towards Bury, the supports of the Cheetham Hill Road bridge on either side of the Metrolink tracks are encased in concrete lest a tram leave the rails and bring the bridge down

14/04/2006 • 002650

1026 enters Victoria. The Metrolink platforms are on the site of those used by the Bury electrics, when the line was still in mainline railway hands

14/04/2006 • 002651

At the front of Victoria mainline station, next to the booking office, is this impressive map of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway who built and ran the station until they were absorbed by the London & North Western Railway in 1922

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