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The station opened as Oxford Road on 20 July 1849 and was the headquarters of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) until 1904. [12] The station was built on the site of 'Little Ireland', a slum "of a worse character than St Giles", [13] in which about four thousand people had lived in "measureless filth and stench" [14] (according to Friedrich Engels in The Condition ...
Platform 3 is used for southbound trains heading to Manchester Victoria, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport, Stalybridge and Manchester Oxford Road. Platform 3 is bi-directional and can be used for northbound trains to Blackburn when platform 1 is full and for terminating trains from Manchester.
Trains from North-East England to Manchester Airport were planned to use the £85 million Ordsall Chord, between Manchester Victoria and Manchester Oxford Road, to access Piccadilly and would have continue to the airport without reversing at Piccadilly. The Manchester Hub Study, outlining the project, was released by Network Rail in February 2010.
Platforms 13-14 are through platforms and are used by through services via Manchester Oxford Road to North Wales, Liverpool Lime Street, North West England, Yorkshire, North East England, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, and through services from Manchester Airport.
The Manchester station group is a station group (for fares purposes) of four railway stations in Manchester city centre, England; this consists of Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Victoria and Deansgate. [1] The station group is printed on national railway tickets as MANCHESTER STNS.
Manchester London Road railway station (now Piccadilly) was opened on 8 May 1842. [1] London Road was the terminus for two trunk lines approaching the city from the south and east: the Manchester and Birmingham Railway from Stockport and Crewe, and the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, which at that point ran only as far as Godley, but would eventually be extended to ...
Oxford Road station is the only point on the route where there are four through lines. At the western end of the corridor, lines from Trafford Park, Eccles, Salford Crescent and Manchester Victoria converge. Lines from Ardwick, Levenshulme and Mauldeth Road converge at the east.
As of 2013, Manchester Victoria is under renovation with the construction of a new £20 million roof while Oxford Road will see redevelopment as a result of the Northern Hub plan in 2014. The construction of the Ordsall Chord linked Greater Manchester's three busiest stations for the first time in December 2017.