Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

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Where the road forks, the left fork follows what is now Alan Turing Way (was Mill Lane). The right fork was Forge Lane which runs through the East stand of the stadium and joins up with Grey Mare Lane at Ashton New Road.

I'm presuming there is no Ashton New Road on this picture. And the railway bridge below the gas cylinder if going the other way is toward queens road, Oldham road.
 
I'm presuming there is no Ashton New Road on this picture. And the railway bridge below the gas cylinder if going the other way is toward queens road, Oldham road.
No, it is there sandwiched between rows of terraced houses running left (near the top) to right (near the middle). You can see the bridge over the railway which Ashton New Road runs over.
 
Where the road forks, the left fork follows what is now Alan Turing Way (was Mill Street). The right fork was Forge Lane which runs past the East stand of the stadium and joins up with Grey Mare Lane at Ashton New Road.
Yes, I think the large factory lying between Mill St and Forge Lane is Johnson's Wire Works, and just above that is the Bradford Colliery pithead. On the extreme left of the pic about halfway up you can see part of a cooling tower of Stuart St power station, roughly where the velodrome is now.
 
I took a stab at lining up the current view using Google Earth. I got the foreground of the image right with roads, park and gasometers.
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Overlayed click link and slide centre bar to left and right
Nice work although one slight problem is that I think the two photos were taken at different altitudes as the diameter of the gasholder frame looks significantly wider in the old photo. So the newer photo would need enlarging by the scaled difference in size to get a totally accurate overlay. But that's just me nitpicking!
 
Across Forge Lane is Beswick goods yard the steel for Johnsons came to the yard and was taken across Forge Lane by Johnsons own loco, the goods yard is now the site of the North stand, back in the 60s and 70s I worked in the yard when I was a fireman at Gorton and the Newton Heath engine sheds. Its been suggested many times on bluemoon that the track be reinstated from 300 mts beyond the Ashton New Rd bridge to Ardwick Jun then trains could run from Picc to Vic serving a station near to the Etihad on match days, if City extend to over 60k this would be a asset for supporters.
 
Don't need it now we have the trams
Metrolink seem unable or unwilling to provide double units for one hour before and after games, they have had a few years now to give the service needed for 45k crowds rising now to 53kr if in the future City get crowds of 60k the there is case to be made for a railway station on the west side of the stadium.
 
Metrolink seem unable or unwilling to provide double units for one hour before and after games, they have had a few years now to give the service needed for 45k crowds rising now to 53kr if in the future City get crowds of 60k the there is case to be made for a railway station on the west side of the stadium.
And with the pop concerts in the summer, a rail station would be a big help moving the crowds to and from the stadium . A 50 to 60'000 stadium needs more then just a Metrolink station.
 
Having it out with a rag in work about 2 or 3 weeks back, apparently the CFA does no benefit to the local community as there was already a college around the corner, gyms in the immediate area & the owners didn't build a slip road to help filter traffic on match days. Honestly.

You couldn't make it up.
 
Nice work although one slight problem is that I think the two photos were taken at different altitudes as the diameter of the gasholder frame looks significantly wider in the old photo. So the newer photo would need enlarging by the scaled difference in size to get a totally accurate overlay. But that's just me nitpicking!

Not so much different altitudes, more just that the old pic was bigger and also had more land on the edges not on the newer pic. I've shrunk the old pic and cropped it, so this is more a like for like -

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Having it out with a rag in work about 2 or 3 weeks back, apparently the CFA does no benefit to the local community as there was already a college around the corner, gyms in the immediate area & the owners didn't build a slip road to help filter traffic on match days. Honestly.

You couldn't make it up.

Their pain is so refreshing mate! They have been hurting for the last 3 years and are now realizing what's about to happen when pep comes in!! Ickle city are about to overtake them forever and haven't needed to sell any man city toilet paper in Asia to do it! ;-)
 
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