St Werburgh's Road tram stop

St Werburgh's Road
Metrolink
The stop shortly after opening
St Werburgh's Road Location of St Werburgh's Road in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Local authority	Manchester
Coordinates	53°26′19″N 2°15′55″W / 53.4387°N 2.2654°W / 53.4387; -2.2654Coordinates: 53°26′19″N 2°15′55″W / 53.4387°N 2.2654°W / 53.4387; -2.2654
Grid reference	SJ824936
Platforms	2 (island)
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	P
Present status	In operation
Operations
Original operator	Manchester Metrolink
History
Opened	7 July 2011
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

St Werburgh's Road is a tram stop on the South Manchester Line (SML) and Airport Line of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. It was built as part of Phase 3a of the network's expansion and opened on 7 July 2011.

Consisting of an island platform to the east of St Werburgh's Road, the stop is built largely on the site of the former Chorlton Junction Signal Box and its surroundings. It serves as an interchange for passengers travelling towards either Manchester Airport or East Didsbury.

St Werburgh's Road stop is on a re-opened railway line, the Cheshire Lines Committee line, which closed to passenger service in 1967. It was planned to reopen the line as part of the expansion of the Manchester Metrolink tram network. Proposals to re-open the line have been put forward since the 1980s, but remained unfunded until the 2000s. The line extension which was originally proposed would take over the disused trackbed of the Cheshire Lines Committee as far as East Didsbury.

In 2006, it was announced that the first phase of the "Big Bang" Metrolink expansion project (Phase 3A) would go ahead, including extensing the network as far as St Werburgh's Road. Following the rejection of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund in a public referendum in 2008, extension of the line to East Didsbury (Phase 3B) went ahead with funding from national and local government.