Date: 28/06/2015

Work has started on the Metrolink in Manchester, suspending all tram services across the city centre for eight weeks. Trams will not run through St Peter's Square until the end of August, Transport for Greater Manchester said. It is part of a 14-month construction project to create a new tram crossing in the city, expected to open in 2017. [From Mark Bartlett]

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Work starts on the Metrolink in Manchester, suspending some tram services across the city centre for eight weeks.

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Construction work and tram track laying taking place in Corporation Street near Manchester Victoria station on 25 June 2015 in connection with the planned 'second city crossing'. [See news item]
Location: Manchester Victoria
Company: Greater Manchester Metrolink
25/06/2015 Mark Bartlett