Crossing the Mersey back in 2012 with the Metro line

Now my much advertised trip on the newly opened tram service from Chorlton to the airport never happened.

I was all set; with camera charged and keen to take advantage of that glorious November sunshine which I reckoned would show the metro stops and the surrounding landscape off to their best.

But for very mundane and boring reasons it didn’t happen.

So the plan is for today and unlike Monday when it was just an adventure today there is a purpose.  We are off to meet our Saul at the airport and with Josh and Polly over from Sheffield and Ben and Ania around the tram seems a plan.

And as you do I was thinking back to the early days of its construction which for many was a tedious round of disruptions along the Barlow Moor Road, Hardy Lane and Mauldeth Road West corridors.

There were frequent diversions, and long waits at the traffic lights, but while all this was going on out by the meadows the engineers were working on crossing the river with the metro line.

Now I know of friends who went for regular walks just to watch the progress of the work and we managed one trip on a warm summer’s evening.

I should have taken a camera but didn’t so I am pleased that Andy Robertson did and captured the construction one July day back in 2012.

Andy regularly supplies some wonderful pictures for the blog and specialises in recording moments in our history which will soon just be a memory.

His series on the new build at Oswald Road, and his current projects recording the development down at Darley Avenue and our closed and endangered public lavatories are the stuff of history.

So that is it, just one day in the story of the Metro Mersey crossing, now just a memory.

Pictures; the metro crossing of the Mersey under construction, July 2014, from the collection of Andy Robertson