Intercity 225
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Hi,
I’ve been travelling a lot on the Altrincham Metrolink line recently and know that it was originally converted from heavy rail in 1992, however I wasn’t local to Manchester at the time. As such there’s a bit about the infrastructure I don’t understand and was hoping that someone could help me out?
Between the Trafford Bar Metrolink stop (formerly the British Rail station named Old Trafford) and the following Metrolink stop at Cornbrook, the tram goes up quite a steep gradient - much steeper than I imagine is in place anywhere on the heavy rail network. It also appears (from a passenger standpoint at least) that a steep gradient would still be required to connect to the Manchester-Liverpool heavy rail line that leads to Deansgate.
My main questions are, how did heavy rail services travel between Deansgate and the station formerly known as Old Trafford? And did the journey involve traversing over a significant gradient?
Many Thanks
I’ve been travelling a lot on the Altrincham Metrolink line recently and know that it was originally converted from heavy rail in 1992, however I wasn’t local to Manchester at the time. As such there’s a bit about the infrastructure I don’t understand and was hoping that someone could help me out?
Between the Trafford Bar Metrolink stop (formerly the British Rail station named Old Trafford) and the following Metrolink stop at Cornbrook, the tram goes up quite a steep gradient - much steeper than I imagine is in place anywhere on the heavy rail network. It also appears (from a passenger standpoint at least) that a steep gradient would still be required to connect to the Manchester-Liverpool heavy rail line that leads to Deansgate.
My main questions are, how did heavy rail services travel between Deansgate and the station formerly known as Old Trafford? And did the journey involve traversing over a significant gradient?
Many Thanks