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Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960.
The corridor is on a 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) viaduct, [5] built by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway in the late 1840s as a near continuous series of red brick vaulted arches, interspersed with iron or steel bridges. [6] The structure is Grade II listed from the River Irwell to Piccadilly station. [7]
Station Location Local authority Mileage Patronage Manchester Piccadilly: Manchester city centre: City of Manchester: 0 32.199 m Ashburys: Openshaw: City of Manchester: 1.61 0.129 m Gorton: Gorton: City of Manchester: 2.81 0.126 m Fairfield: Fairfield: Tameside: 3.72 43,316 Guide Bridge: Audenshaw: Tameside: 5.02 0.386 m Flowery Field: Flowery ...
The south side's services radiate from Manchester Piccadilly and run to Manchester Airport, south Manchester, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Leeds, North East England, London and other major destinations. [2] The region's rail network started to develop during the Industrial Revolution, when it was at the centre of a textile manufacturing boom. [5]
Westbound exits Road continues as A635 to Ashton-under-Lyne, Mossley and Greenfield: Manchester Piccadilly, Stockport, Hyde A6 Sheffield (A57) Manchester Piccadilly, Stockport, Hyde A6 Sheffield (A57) Start of motorway: UMIST, Wilmslow, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, A34 No exit: No exit: Didsbury, Birmingham, Moss Side, Hulme, Manchester Airport ...
Panoramic view of the completed Ordsall Chord with the River Irwell, Aviva studios and the Prince's bridge in 2024. Ordsall Chord, also known as the Castlefield Curve, is a short railway line in Ordsall, Salford, England, which links Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria, designed to increase capacity and reduce journey times into and through Manchester.
The Fallowfield Loop railway line was a local railway route in south Manchester, England.Trains on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) line (later, the Great Central Railway line) from Sheffield Victoria and Guide Bridge used the Loop to access Manchester Central.
The Cope Depot, or Manchester and Augusta Railroad Station in Cope, South Carolina was a privately owned railroad depot [2] [3] built in 1893. It was built by the Manchester and Augusta Railroad six years before being acquired by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.