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Car 3007 id one of the latest generation of Metrolink cars. Here it is headed away from the camera for Media City UK.
©Dr Neil Clifton
©Dr Neil Clifton
Car No 1001 is bound for Media City UK.
©Dr Neil Clifton
On the left is one of the latest cars, No 3002 bound for Manchester Piccadilly, passing an older car No 1006 for Media City UK.
©Dr Neil Clifton
©Dr Neil Clifton
©Dr Neil Clifton
Car 1021, approaching the camera. is heading for Manchester Piccadilly
©Dr Neil Clifton
This shows the delta junction where the branch to Media City UK leaves the line to Eccles. An Eccles to Manchester car is seen in the distance.
©Dr Neil Clifton
©Dr Neil Clifton
This was taken when the footbridge had been raised, the Imperial War Museum is in the background
©Ian Hargreaves
A warship H.M.S. Middleton,in Salford Quays basin, to the left is the Lowry,to the right and over the water Manchester United Football Ground. To the right of the Minesweeper bows, Holiday Inn, Express, Salford Quays.
©Alan Pennington
Peel Holdings, a huge company these days, owners of the Trafford Centre, Liverpool Airport, The Manchester Ship Canal & most of its land close to the canal banks, and other regional airports such as Exeter Airport. They have plans to purchase other airports & possibly the Albert Dock Complex in Liverpool to name but a few of their future plans.
©Alan Pennington
A view of the Lowry Theatre from across the canal. This is now a thriving area with shops and offices, water sport facilities, cinemas,museum,bars and hotels. It is also becoming the "IN" place to have an apartment, many skyrise buildings are being developed on this former inland docks site, now a big tourist attraction.
©Alan Pennington
A photo taken from the top of the Imperial War Museum Manchester. Across the Manchester Ship Canal you can see the Lowry Theatre and in the foreground the lifting walkway bridge. This bridge is raised and lowered when ships need to access the basin, sadly the massive ships that used to bring goods into Manchester from all over the world now offload their cargo in Liverpool rather than come the 35 miles from the river Mersey. Most modern container ships would be too large anyway to negotiate the canal today. Thankfully some of the smaller vessels still come up the canal with goods such as grain, wood and small oil tankers. The canal system needs to be constantly dredged to keep it in working order, sometimes you will see the dredger at work especially in the basins of this area. The Holiday Inn Express Hotel Salford Quays, is barely visible in the centre of the photo close to the bridge upright, it is the red bricked building.
©Alan Pennington
©Chris Coleman

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  • new metrolink stop.

    As an ex resident of chorlton I was wondering how the new tram line was working out, I watched it unfold down through the months prior to leaving for new zealand and haven't heard much …
    gabriel79 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Tuesday 20 March, 2012


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