Queens Road tram stop

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Beginning 6 April 1992, when the Bury Line was first opened to Metrolink, Queens Road was a staff halt and was not open to the public.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-20 |title=> News > Work begins on latest Metrolink stop - Place North West |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920214826/https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/14359-work-begins-on-latest-metrolink-stop.html |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=web.archive.org}} Its only features were two approximately 5-metre long platforms with a shelter, stairs to each for access, and a pedestrian crossing.{{Cite web |title=Geograph:: Metrolink, Queens Road © David Dixon |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1835273 |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=www.geograph.org.uk}} Flexibility may have been given in the schedule to allow for trams to stop at the halt.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Over time, there was a need to upgrade local access. A GMITA report from May 2010 discussed the idea to close Woodlands Road stop and open replacements at Queens Road and Abraham Moss.{{cite web |title=Item 4A – North Manchester Metrolink Stops |url=http://www.transportforgreatermanchestercommittee.gov.uk/download/3049/item_04a_north_manchester_metrolink_stops |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720140619/http://www.transportforgreatermanchestercommittee.gov.uk/download/3049/item_04a_north_manchester_metrolink_stops |archive-date=20 July 2011 |access-date=18 April 2011 |publisher=Transport for Greater Manchester Committee}} In October 2010, Abraham Moss would begin construction,{{Cite web |title=News 2010 — Manchester Metrolink — LRTA |url=https://lrta.info/archive/Manchester/news/n10.html#oct.a |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=lrta.info}} and two months later a public consultation was held on the subject of closing Woodlands Road.

In February 2013, after confirmation of planning permission for Queens Road, it was confirmed that Woodlands Road would close. In September 2013, works began at the site to transform Queens Road staff halt to a tram stop for passenger service.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-20 |title=> News > Work begins on latest Metrolink stop - Place North West |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920214826/http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/14359-work-begins-on-latest-metrolink-stop.html |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=web.archive.org}} In December 2013, works were finished. Queens Road opened to passengers on 16 December 2013, and Woodlands Road had ceased operations by the beginning of service on this day.{{cite web |title=New Queens Road Metrolink stop to open |url=http://www.tfgm.com/Corporate/media_centre/Pages/News.aspx?articleId=363 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215141953/http://www.tfgm.com/Corporate/media_centre/Pages/News.aspx?articleId=363 |archive-date=15 December 2013 |access-date=10 January 2015 |publisher=Transport for Greater Manchester}}

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Queens Road tram stop was constructed with accessibility in mind. A lift is located at the northern end of the Bury (outbound) platform, and sets of stairs. The only direct entrance to the inbound platform is via a short ramp on Smeaton Street, but it can also be reached using the pedestrian crossing at track level to the south of the platforms. There are steps down to Smeaton Street from the A6010 (road) but they are not part of the Metrolink's infrastructure.

Two dot matrix passenger information displays stand serving one platform each, and show estimated arrival times for trams in minutes up to 30 minutes prior (up to three at a time) and number of carriages.

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Every route across the Manchester Metrolink network operates to a 12-minute headway (5 {{Tooltip|tph|trams per hour}}) Monday–Saturday, and to a 15-minute headway (4 {{Tooltip|tph|trams per hour}}) on Sundays and bank holidays. Sections served by a second "peak only" route (like this stop) will have a combined headway of 6 minutes during peak times.

Queens Road is located in Zone 2, and the stop itself has two platforms which aren't named. Trams towards Piccadilly depart from the inbound platform (easternmost) and an extra service runs direct to Altrincham via Market Street during peak times. Trams to Bury stop at the outbound platform (westernmost).

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Queens Road tram stop is served closest by bus route 151 (Ashton-under-Lyne–Higher Crumpsall) on Queens Road, and 156 (Manchester–Middleton) on Smedley Road.

This tram stop is not connected to or near to any railway stations, but the nearest is Manchester Victoria, approximately 1.5 miles away walking.

• Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester

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• [https://tfgm.com/travel-updates/live-departures/tram/queens-road-tram Queens Road tram stop - Live departures]
• [https://tfgm.com/public-transport/tram/stops/queens-road-tram/local-map Queens Road tram stop - Area map]

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