Burton Road tram stop

Burton Road
Metrolink
Burton Road Metrolink station, on its opening day
Burton Road Location of Burton Road in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Withington
Local authority	Manchester
Coordinates	53°25′43″N 2°14′24″W / 53.4286°N 2.240°W / 53.4286; -2.240Coordinates: 53°25′43″N 2°14′24″W / 53.4286°N 2.240°W / 53.4286; -2.240
Grid reference	SJ840924
Platforms	2
Fare zone information
Present status	In operation
History
Opened	23 May 2013
South Manchester Line to Rochdale and Shaw and Crompton Deansgate-Castlefield Deansgate Bridgewater Canal Cornbrook to Eccles and MediaCityUK Manchester-Liverpool Line Trafford Bar to Altrincham Firswood Chorlton St Werburgh's Road to Manchester Airport Withington Burton Road West Didsbury Didsbury Village Styal Line East Didsbury

South Manchester Line

Burton Road is a stop on the South Manchester Line (SML) of Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system, on Burton Road, Withington, Manchester, England. The stop was built as part of Phase 3b of the network's expansion, and opened on 23 May 2013 on a section of the former Midland Railway. It is the closest stop to nearby Withington Community Hospital.

In 1880 the Midland Railway opened the new which ran from Heaton Mersey to Throstle Nest Junction, Old Trafford. The line north of Chorlton Junction (with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's line to Fallowfield) was later operated by the Cheshire Lines Committee from 1891 when the Fallowfield line opened. Under British Rail operation, the line closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe.

Plans to re-open the line for light rail use have been proposed since the early 1980s, but these proposals failed several times due to problems securing funding. Revised plans put forward in 2006 only allowed for the line to be opened as far as St Werburgh's Road in Chorlton.