Firswood
General information
Location	Firswood,Trafford England
Coordinates	53°27′04″N2°16′40″W / 53.45114°N 2.27764°W /53.45114; -2.27764
Grid reference	SJ816949
System	Metrolink station
Line	South Manchester Line
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	2
History
Original company	Manchester Metrolink
Key dates
7 July 2011	Opened
Route map Legend toTrafford Bar toOld Trafford 0:12 Firswood 0:10 Chorlton 0:09 St Werburgh's Road toManchester Airport 0:07 Withington 0:05 Burton Road 0:04 West Didsbury 0:02 Didsbury Village Styal Line 0:00 East Didsbury ( East Didsbury) This diagram: view talk edit
Location

Firswood is a tram stop on theSouth Manchester Line (SML) andAirport Line ofGreater Manchester's light-railMetrolink system. Located in theFirswood area ofStretford, it was built as part of Phase 3a of the network's expansion, and opened on 7 July 2011.^[1]

Firswood Metrolink station is located on a section of the formerCheshire Lines Committee railway line, in a cutting adjacent to St John Vianney School on Rye Bank Road. The stop provides access to both Firswood andWhalley Range.

The station opened on 7 July 2011.^[1] and is the first newly constructed station on the new South Manchester Metrolink line out of Manchester.Firswood is a new station on a re-opened railway line, theCheshire Lines Committee line, which closed to passenger service in 1967. It was planned to re-open the line as part of the expansion of theManchester Metrolink tram network.^[2] Proposals to re-open the line have been put forward since the 1980s,^[3] but remained unfunded until the 2000s. The line extension which was originally proposed would take over the disused tracks of the Cheshire Lines Committee as far asEast Didsbury.

In 2006, it was announced that Phase 3A would go ahead, including the extension of the network as farSt Werburgh's Road.^[4] Following the rejection of theGreater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund in a public referendum in 2008, extension of the line as East Didsbury (Phase 3B) will now go ahead with funding from national and local government.^[2][5][6]

Construction of the line began in April 2009 and the new line became operational in July 2011.^[1]

Firswood is located on the South Manchester Line with trams towardsShaw and Crompton viaVictoria andOldham and toEast Didsbury running every 12 minutes Monday-Saturdays and Sunday daytime and every 15 minutes Sunday early mornings and evenings.^[7] Services extended from St Werburgh's Road toEast Didsbury on 23 May 2013 and, from 3 November 2014, services ran toManchester Airport fromCornbrook.

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Chorlton towardsEast Didsbury		East Didsbury–Rochdale		Trafford Bar towardsRochdale Town Centre
		East Didsbury–Shaw (peak only)		Trafford Bar towardsShaw and Crompton
Chorlton towardsManchester Airport		Manchester Airport–Victoria		Trafford Bar towardsVictoria

• 12 minute service toShaw and Crompton with double trams in the peak
• 12 minute service toRochdale Town Centre with double trams in the peak
• 12 minute service toVictoria with single trams (every 20 minutes before 6 am)
• 6 minute service toEast Didsbury with double trams in the peak
• 12 minute service toManchester Airport with single trams (every 20 minutes before 6 am)

Firswood is not served by any direct bus service but some services stop nearby to the stop.Stagecoach Manchester service 15 stops on King's Road and runs westbound toFlixton viaStretford andUrmston and eastbound toManchester.^[8]

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  Construction work on the line near Chorlton
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  Map of the South Manchester line extensions
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  Under construction in June 2010
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  Firswood tram stop, in August 2012

• Manchester Metrolink Extension Project - map of the plans (Urban Transport Technology)
• Metrolink stop information
• Firswood area mapArchived 29 January 2018 at theWayback Machine
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130226053951/http://www.lrta.org/Manchester/city_south.html

• Tram stops in Trafford
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2011
• Manchester South District Line
• Tram stops on the East Didsbury – Rochdale route
• Tram stops on the East Didsbury – Shaw route
• Tram stops on the Manchester Airport – Victoria route

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