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The station was reached across the dual-carriageway Oldham bypass, a difficult walk from the town centre. A pedestrian underpass led to the island platform, where there was a ticket office. The station closed due to the conversion of the line to Metrolink on 3 October 2009 and, by May 2010, had been completely demolished. [ 1 ]
Oldham Central tram stop is a tram stop in Oldham town centre on Union Street. It is on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) The stop takes its name from the closed Oldham Central railway station, which was located south of Oldham Way. The stop was built as part of Phase 3b of the Manchester Metrolink and opened on 27 January 2014. [1]
It offers good connectivity to Manchester city centre and beyond. Trams run directly to Manchester Victoria in under 30 minutes and onwards to national networks, and also to Rochdale railway station and town centre. [99] Oldham bus station provides a transport hub at the heart of the town centre. Combined with a network of bus corridors the ...
Rochdale Town Centre: 28 February 2013: 4: 208,000: For Rochdale railway station. Rochdale Town Centre: Oldham and Rochdale: Rochdale: Rochdale Town Centre: 31 March 2014: 4: 544,200: For Rochdale Interchange and Number One Riverside. Terminus of the Oldham-Rochdale Line. Roundthorn: Airport: Manchester: Baguley: 3 November 2014: 3/4: 235,500
Numbers 1-5 and 2-6 have long since been demolished, making way for a new road and the chambers of the Oldham branch of Barclays Bank. The oldest remaining building on Church Lane is at number 8 which was built in about 1780 and pre-dates the parish church. This building is possibly the oldest building in the town centre.
The Oldham Loop diverged from the Caldervale Line at Thorpes Bridge Junction in Newton Heath, Manchester and re-joined it at Rochdale East Junction. The line was 12 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles (19.5 km) long, and was double-track from Thorpes Bridge Junction to Shaw & Crompton, and single-line from Shaw & Crompton to Rochdale East Junction.
The extension had one intermediate station, Oldham Central, located on the Oldham town centre side immediately beyond the second tunnel. [3] [4]Little is known about this station and it was probably of a temporary nature, Quick (2023) reports that it was not mentioned in all the usual timetables or diagrams, nor was it mentioned by name in newspapers, although the Manchester Courier reporting ...
A Metrolink tram running through Union Street, on the Oldham town centre line opened in January 2014. Oldham had electric tramways to Manchester in the early 20th century; the first tram was driven from Manchester into Oldham in 1900 by the Lord Mayor of Manchester. [25] The system came to an end on 3 August 1946, however. [11]