Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[JGL07]

DLR in London seems to work alright

That is a tram system not a Monorail.

 

[levets]

True.

I still call Manchester Central, GMEX. And the AO Arena the Manchester Arena. Etc.

I’m a FOC. :-)

I still call it The Nynex Arena

 

[levets]

Man City empty seats idiots detract from an important issue

There are lots of grown-up conversations to be had around how clubs and governing bodies treat fans and the money they make off them, but that is lost in juvenile points-scoring

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Simon, the stadium is NOT 55,000 capacity. The capacity is now 53,530 I believe

 

[Mancini Manus Domini]

‘A nightclub on a massive scale’: touring Populous’ £365m Co-op Live arena

Soon to be the UK's biggest indoor music venue when it opens in April, the 23,500-seat Manchester behemoth is an impressive site. Tom Lowe has a look around

www.building.co.uk

 

[LEXSTARproject]

Can the train not run on a loop starting point from Newton Heath Maintence depot to the train would start at Etihad Campus then to Ashbury then Ashbury then from there to Piccadilly

Only on days when there is football or concerts on this along with the buses and trams would help clear out the area

Etihad Campus special

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Can the train not run on a loop starting point from Newton Heath Maintence depot to the train would start at Etihad Campus then to Ashbury then Ashbury then from there to Piccadilly

Only on days when there is football or concerts on this along with the buses and trams would help clear out the area

Etihad Campus special

I’m not an expert on the trains but have followed the discussions on Skyscrapercity and Railforums about what’s happening around Manchester for a few years. I assume that a lot of those people have studied the issues and some will work or have worked in the industry so know the problems faced. Nothing is 100% impossible but there appear to be issues about…

No spare terminating capacity at either Victoria or Piccadilly. This means trains have to wait outside stations until a platform becomes available or they just leave longer gaps in the schedules. They are planning to add new sidings so trains at Victoria can run through and then come back but that just partly helps fix the current situation, it doesn’t necessarily mean new services can be added.

When a new path is suggested, it needs to run a route that involves as little use of points as possible as it means other trains have to wait until it has crossed over when they switch tracks. A route from Newton Heath would need to switch tracks quite a bit so I doubt it would get signed off.

Changing direction at a station also causes problems as the dwell time blocks the line or platform longer than a train simply calling as it passes through.

This is why reopening Park is the most likely scenario, however no-one has ever mentioned it AFAIK on any of these forums so I am guessing there’s not much of a business case for it. That idea may not even be possible now, I’ve never asked, but if it is it would be a station on an existing service so doesn’t add to the issues above, except it still affects the scheduling of current trains, even that might be a show stopper.

 

[Spanishbob]

I crave more crane porn please.

 

[failsworthblueboy]

I crave more crane porn please.

You need to look in the North Stand Erection thread, oops sorry Expansion.

 

[jrb]

Metrolink is only going to get busier at the weekends(see paragraph below) when the Coop Live Arena opens, and the North stand is expanded.

The full TFGM news article is on the Metrolink thread.

Metrolink passenger numbers are back to pre-pandemic levels during the weekday peak times and even busier on weekends. With 130,000 journeys on an average weekday, work on the network is planned carefully to keep disruption to a minimum.

 

[LEXSTARproject]

Crane are us