Ordsall Chord
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Ordsall Chord, also known as the Castlefield Curve, is a short railway line in Ordsall, Salford, England, which links Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria, designed
Panoramic view of the completed Ordsall Chord with the River Irwell, Aviva studios and the Prince's bridge in 2024
Construction of the Ordsall Chord in October 2016
Ordsall Chord under construction in April 2017
Picc-Vic tunnel
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Picc-Vic was a proposed, and later cancelled, underground railway designed in the early 1970s with the purpose of connecting two major mainline railway termini in Manchester city centre, England. The
Ordsall Chord
…main stations at Piccadilly and Victoria were not linked and many trains terminated at Victoria taking up excessive platform space. One solution, the Picc-Vic tunnel between the stations, was proposed in the 1970s but rejected on cost grounds in 1977. A curve at Ordsall linking Piccadilly to Victoria was proposed…
An artist's impression of the Picc-Vic line (1971)
A prototype SELNEC interactive display board, now on display at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester