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114 - Manchester Metrolink: Mauldeth Road West, St.Werburgh's Road & City Centre - 26th January 2023

On Thursday 26th January 2023, we made our first short visit of the year to Manchester Metrolink. Having exhausted all of the stops along the network, our plan for 2023 is to look at interesting sections of route as well as the City Centre and our first visit was to Mauldeth Road West (on the Airport branch) and along to St.Werburgh's Road, where the East Didsbury branch converges. We picked this section as is best replicates a traditional tramway with tracks along the centre of the road and power collected from the overhead using span wires. Beyond Barlow Moor Road the track is on reservation until it leaves the road onto its own alignment converging with the East Didsbury branch at St.Werbergh's Road. We also made a video as we passed Trafford Depot, noting the trams parked up outside, especially 3083 that has been long term out of service and seems not have a pantograph at this moment in time. In the City Centre, we photographed buses in special liveries and caught up with a National Express coach on its way into Chorlton Street. Over the time we were in Manchester, we saw the "first" (3001) and the "last" (3147) and a good number of other Bombardier Flexity M5000s plying their trade on the network. We also caught up with Flexity M5000, 3030, in St.Peter's Square, where we got chance to extensively cover its advert for Jordan Tourism. In February 2023, we will be having a closer look at Ashton-under-Lyne and Ashton Moss where there are a number of interesting features including running through the centre of a traffic gyratory. After that..... well it's over to you really....... tell us where you want us to go to video parts of the Metrolink network that you would like to see in more detail. We hope that you will enjoy this presentation and that you will "like" it and subscribe to our channel - Youtube: Podbaba Transport. Podbaba Transport 2023 26th January 2023