Manchester

5 Nov 12   Metrolink works update in Oldham and Ashton.  Sunny.

Tram to Oldham for a look round and a cappuccino, as you do, then bus to Ashton.  Walked home from there.

The extension to Shaw and Rochdale is nearing completion.

Won't be long now.

The town centre diversion is a couple of years away - here's where it will join the loop line.

Plenty of work yet to do through the town centre.

Union Street.

Union Street.

The future King Street stop.

Looking down on the King Street stop.

Ashton - landscaping well under way at the terminus.

Ashton terminus.

Approaching the town centre.

Ashton West stop on Lord Sheldon Way.

Crossing the roundabout on Lord Sheldon Way.

Finishing off on the M60 motorway bridge.

The overhead power lines have been installed along sections of Lord Sheldon Way.

Approaching Audenshaw.

A forest of poles at the Audenshaw stop.

Manchester Road, Droylsden, with the CIS building in Manchester centre.