Weatherfield North is a tram stop on the Manchester Metrolink light-rail system in Weatherfield, located on Victoria Street. The station's facilities are at ground level, with the platforms and tracks running across a viaduct above a number of retail units, currently occupied by a branch of the Co-op, and an EE phone shop.
History[]
The station originally opened as Weatherfield Railway Station. At some point between 1901 and 1949, Northern Tramways Limited operated a tram service across the same viaduct as part of the Manchester Corporation Tramway. After World War II, electric trolleybuses and motor buses began to be favoured by local authorities as a cheaper transport alternative, and by 1949 the last Manchester tram line was closed. Frosted windows on the upper floor of Weatherfield North elude to its past when it was operated by the Northern Tramways Limited.
The railway station was still open in September 1974 when porter Syd Greaves took charge of the tandem that the Ogdens were planning to use to cycle through Lancashire. Syd noted that they were already worn out by the short ride from their home to the station and suggested they leave it with him. When the Ogdens got back, they kept up the pretence that they rode the tandem but no one was fooled as Syd had returned the bike to Ray Langton a few days earlier.
2023: Platform view
Metrolink's network was extended westwards to Eccles as part of the 1990s urban regeneration of Salford Quays in 1999. Despite its conversion as part of the new Metrolink line, Weatherfield North has retained its old ticket offices and Victorian canopy at the station facilities. The tram stop is also served by the following bus routes; 33, 63 and 157.
Nina Lucas gifted her locomotive enthusiast uncle Roy Cropper the original sign from Weatherfield Railway Station in September 2022. It is displayed above the fireplace in Roy's Rolls.