Place Hollinwood Metrolink Zone K Opened 17 May 1880 | Grid reference SD903026 Present status In operation Platforms in use 2 | |
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Original operator Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Pre-grouping company Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Address Chadderton, Oldham OL9 7LG, United Kingdom Similar Sale Water Park tram stop, Derker Metrolink station, Radcliffe tram stop, Oldham Mumps tram stop, Whitefield tram stop | ||
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Hollinwood tram stop is a tram stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) in Hollinwood, Greater Manchester, England. It was formerly a railway station before its conversion to Metrolink in 2012.
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History
Hollinwood railway station opened on 17 May 1880, situated in the Hollinwood area of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. The station was 4½ miles (7 km) north east of Manchester Victoria on the Oldham Loop Line operated and managed by Northern Rail.
The station was next to the M60 motorway Manchester Outer Ring Road which was constructed across part of the former station site. As a consequence of this the station was rebuilt by the Highways Agency in the 1990s.
The station closed for the conversion of the line to Metrolink on 3 October 2009 and re-opened as Hollinwood Metrolink station on 13 June 2012.
Former railway service
After May 1995 Hollinwood was served by half-hourly trains from Manchester Victoria to Shaw & Crompton. Trains to Rochdale ran every half-hour but passed through Hollinwood without stopping. On Sundays there was an hourly service in each direction.
Services
Services run mostly every 12 minutes on all routes.
Connecting bus routes
Hollinwood station is served by First Greater Manchester service 149, which stops nearby on Tweedale Way and runs to Oldham via Coppice and to Manchester via Moston and Cheetham Hill. Stagecoach Manchester service 151 stops at the other end of Tweedale Way with the 151 running to Hightown via Failsworth, Newton Heath and Cheetham Hill.
On Manchester Road, First services 83, 180 and 184 provide frequent buses between Manchester and Oldham with the 83 continuing to Sholver and the 180/184 running to Saddleworth plus Huddersfield (184), while First service X84 provides a peak-time express service to Manchester and Saddleworth. MCT service 159 runs to Oldham via Chadderton and Middleton via Failsworth, while Stagecoach service 396 runs to Ashton-under-Lyne via Hathershaw and to Newton Heath via Failsworth.