East Didsbury Metrolink station

East Didsbury
Metrolink
East Didsbury tram stop, on its opening day
East Didsbury Location of East Didsbury in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Didsbury
Local authority	Manchester
Coordinates	53°24′42″N 2°12′58″W / 53.411591°N 2.216216°W / 53.411591; -2.216216Coordinates: 53°24′42″N 2°12′58″W / 53.411591°N 2.216216°W / 53.411591; -2.216216
Grid reference	SJ856905
Platforms	2 (island)
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	D
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

East Didsbury is a tram stop on Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system, and the terminus of the system's South Manchester Line (SML). It is on the east side of Kingsway in East Didsbury, close to Manchester's boundary with . It was built as part of Phase 3b of the network's expansion and opened on 23 May 2013.

East Didsbury tram stop was built on the Midland Railway's former from Manchester Central Station. East Didsbury Metrolink station is 200 metres (660 ft) northeast of East Didsbury railway station, which is a heavy National Rail station on the Styal Line.

Together with West Didsbury and Didsbury Village Metrolink stops, East Didsbury had been a feature of proposals to extend the Metrolink system since 1983. In 2006, it was announced that the CLC line would be re-opened as part of an expansion project, and that the extension would initially go only as far as St Werburgh's Road in a project named Phase 3a. Following the rejection of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund in a public referendum in 2008, Phase 3b of the extension of the line to East Didsbury went ahead using the Greater Manchester Transport Fund.