High Street tram stop


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High Street was a tram stop on Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink network, located in Manchester city centre, England. It was on the east side of High Street opposite Manchester Arndale, between the present Shudehill tram stop and Market Street tram stop.

High Street

Metrolink station

High Street tram stop in 1993, visible on the left

General information
LocationManchester city centre, Manchester
England
Coordinates53°28′57″N 2°14′22″W / 53.48250°N 2.23944°W
Grid referenceSJ842984
Line(s)First City Crossing
Platforms1
Other information
StatusClosed
Fare zoneD (City)
History
Opened27 April 1992
Southbound only
Closed10 August 1998
Original companyMetrolink

Route map

to Bury

Victoria National Rail

Shudehill
Exchange Square

Market Street

Piccadilly
Gardens
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St Peter's Square

Piccadilly National Rail
Deansgate-Castlefield
(National Rail Deansgate)

New Islington
Cornbrook

stop in both Zone 1 and 2
 

Trafford Bar

This diagram:

Location

Map

The stop opened on 27 April 1992.[1] Market Street (which opened the same day,[2] and was just around the corner) and High Street Metrolink stops effectively formed a single station staggered across a road junction, with different stop names for each platform: southbound vehicles (going towards Piccadilly Gardens and St Peter's Square) stopped at the High Street stop, and northbound vehicles (going towards Victoria) stopped at Market Street. [notes 1] High Street, Market Street and Mosley Street tram stops were each originally built with a single-platform construction and one-way operation due to constraints on available space in the road layout.[3]

Market Street was modified to handle traffic in both directions when the street was closed to traffic, and the High Street platform was demolished in 1998 after six years' service.

Map of the original layout of Market Street (northbound) and High Street (southbound) tram stops in 1992
  1. ^ Shudehill tram stop did not open until 2003, and so the next stop for northbound trams after High Street was Manchester Victoria station
  1. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  2. ^ Butt 1995, p. 155
  3. ^ Ogden, Eric; Senior, John A. (1992). Metrolink. Transport Publishing. pp. 61, 89. ISBN 978-0863171550.
Preceding station   Manchester Metrolink Following station
Former services
Mosley Street

towards Altrincham

Altrincham–Bury (peak only) Victoria

One-way operation

Piccadilly Gardens

towards Bury

Bury–Piccadilly

reverse

Manchester railways

City Centre and North
Past, present and future

Manchester Metrolink Main line services

Moston
Newton Heath
Newton Heath
and Moston
Bowker Vale
Crumpsall Clayton Bridge
Abraham Moss Park
Woodlands Road
Queens Road Central Park
Monsall Edge Lane
Miles Platting Clayton Hall
Velopark
Oldham Road Holt Town
Manchester Victoria Etihad Campus
Exchange New Islington
Ardwick
Shudehill Ashburys
High Street
Manchester
Piccadilly
Mayfield
Market Street
Piccadilly
Gardens
Exchange Square Gorton
Mosley Street Manchester Oxford Road
St Peter's Square
Manchester
Central
Deansgate-
Castlefield
Deansgate
Liverpool Road
Cornbrook Cornbrook
Pomona
Trafford Bar
Firswood