Brooklands Metrolink station

Brooklands
Metrolink
Brooklands Metrolink station in 2010
Brooklands Location of Brooklands in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Brooklands
Local authority	Trafford
Coordinates	53°25′02″N 2°19′34″W / 53.4171°N 2.3261°W / 53.4171; -2.3261Coordinates: 53°25′02″N 2°19′34″W / 53.4171°N 2.3261°W / 53.4171; -2.3261
Grid reference	SJ783911
Platforms	2
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	F
Present status	In operation
Operations
Original operator	MSJAR
Pre-grouping company	MSJAR
Post-grouping company	MSJAR London Midland Region of British Railways
History
Opened	1 December 1859
Closed as rail station	24 December 1991
Conversion to Metrolink operation	15 June 1992
Altrincham Line to Bury and Etihad Campus Deansgate-Castlefield Deansgate Bridgewater Canal Cornbrook to Eccles and MediaCityUK Manchester-Liverpool Line Trafford Bar to East Didsbury and Manchester Airport Old Trafford Stretford River Mersey Dane Road Sale Brooklands Timperley Navigation Road Altrincham

Altrincham Line

Brooklands is a tram stop on the Altrincham Line of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system in the Brooklands area of Sale. It opened on 15 June 1992 as part of Phase 1 of Metrolink's expansion.

The station was originally opened on 1 December 1859 by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) after Samuel Brooks, a Manchester banker, built an estate of large houses along Brooklands Road. It closed as a British Rail station on 24 December 1991 before reopening as a Metrolink station on 15 June 1992.

Brooklands Station is a Grade II listed building.

Brooklands railway station in 1962.

Brooklands station in 1988, prior to conversion to Metrolink.

Brooklands is on the Altrincham Line with trams towards Altrincham stopping every 6 minutes during the day, Mondays to Saturdays, every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday evenings and Sundays. Trams also head towards Manchester and Bury, with the Monday to Saturday daytime service running every 12 minutes each to Etihad Campus or Bury, while evening and Sundays journeys run to Etihad Campus only with journeys to Bury requiring a change of trams at Piccadilly Gardens.

Brooklands station is served by Finglands/Stagecoach Manchester service 99, which runs to Sale via Sale Moor and to Manchester via Northenden, Go Goodwins service 266, which runs to Sale and to Altrincham via Timperley and by Go Goodwins service 268, which runs between Wythenshawe and Urmston via Sale and Stretford.