Queens Road tram stop

Queens Road is a tram stop in the suburban area of Cheetham Hill, Greater Manchester, England. It is on the Bury Line of Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system.

Queens Road
Metrolink station
Queens Road tram stop in January 2017.
General information
Location	Cheetham Hill, Manchester England
Coordinates	53.50167°N 2.22664°W / 53.50167; -2.22664
Line(s)	Bury Line
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	2
History
Opened	1992 (As a staff station only) 16 December 2013 (as a passenger station)
Previous names	Queens Road Staff Halt
Key dates
Late 2013	Renamed
Route map Legend 0:00 Bury Bolton Street East Lancashire Railway River Irwell 0:05 Radcliffe River Irwell 0:07 Whitefield 0:09 Besses o' th' Barn  M60  0:11 Prestwich 0:12 Heaton Park 0:14 Bowker Vale 0:15 Crumpsall 0:17 Abraham Moss to Queens Road Depot 0:19 Queens Road to Monsall River Irk Calder Valley Line 0:23 Victoria  to Exchange Square to Shudehill This diagram: view talk edit
Location

History

It originally opened as a staff halt stop only,^[1][2] serving the Metrolink system's original Queens Road depot at Metrolink House. The station opened on 16 December 2013.^[3] Queens Road is the closest station to the Manchester Museum of Transport on Boyle Street and is adjacent to the Irish World Heritage Centre.

The station replaced Woodlands Road tram stop, which closed on the opening day of Queens Road tram stop to passengers.

Services

Services mostly run every 12 minutes on 2 routes, forming a 6-minute service between Bury and Manchester at peak times.

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Victoria towards Altrincham		Altrincham–Bury (peak only)		Abraham Moss towards Bury
Victoria towards Piccadilly		Piccadilly–Bury

Gallery

• 
  Queens Road in 2014.

References

1. "Work begins on latest Metrolink stop". Place North West. 17 September 2013.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "New Queens Road Metrolink stop to open". Metrolink.

External links

• Metrolink stop information
• Queens Road area map

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Legend
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Manchester Metrolink Main line services to Rochdale to Oldham Moston Newton Heath to Bury Newton Heath and Moston Bowker Vale to Tameside Crumpsall Clayton Bridge Abraham Moss Park Woodlands Road to Tameside Queens Road Central Park Monsall Edge Lane Miles Platting Clayton Hall Velopark Oldham Road Holt Town Manchester Victoria Etihad Campus Exchange New Islington to Ordsall Chord and to Salford Ardwick Shudehill Ashburys High Street │ Manchester Piccadilly Mayfield Market Street │ Piccadilly Gardens to South Manchester Exchange Square Gorton Mosley Street Manchester Oxford Road St Peter's Square to Belle Vue Manchester Central │ Deansgate- Castlefield Deansgate Liverpool Road to Hyde Road to Ordsall Chord and to Salford to Tameside Cornbrook Cornbrook Pomona to Eccles Trafford Bar to Trafford to Trafford Firswood to Altrincham to Chorlton