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    The Eccles Line is a tram line of the Manchester Metrolink in Greater Manchester running from Manchester to Eccles via Salford Quays, with a short spur...
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  • Eccles may refer to: Eccles, Greater Manchester, a town in North West England Eccles (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral division represented in...
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    2, the Metrolink network was extended westwards to Eccles along the new 4-mile (6.4 km) Eccles Line, as part of the 1990s urban regeneration of Salford...
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    the Manchester Ship Canal to the south. The town is famous for the Eccles cake. Eccles grew around the 13th-century Parish Church of St Mary. Evidence of...
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    system's Eccles Line, and opened on 21 July 2000. The interchange is roughly 300 metres (330 yd) away from Eccles railway station. The Eccles line for the...
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    1997. The Eccles Line was officially opened as far as Broadway tram stop on 6 December 1999 by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair a service to Eccles Interchange...
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    Cornbrook was opened, plus a new line through Salford Quays up to Broadway tram stop in 1999, and was extended to Eccles in 2000. Before Phase 3 began,...
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    MediaCityUK tram stop (category Tram stops on the Eccles – Ashton route)
    other parts of Salford Quays. It is at the end of a short spur from the Eccles Line. MediaCityUK is a development within Salford Quays, on the site of the...
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    Salford City Council's 2004–2016 unitary development plan: Extending from Eccles Interchange along the A57 road to Barton-upon-Irwell and then across the...
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    Trafford Park Line begins at a junction with the Eccles Line immediately west of Pomona stop, where concrete blocks were placed when the Eccles Line was constructed...
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    withdrawn on 10 February 2014. Ahead of the opening of the Phase 2 line to Eccles Line, six new vehicles were ordered and constructed in 1999. Bodyshells...
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    Pomona tram stop (category Tram stops on the Eccles – Ashton route)
    Pomona is a tram stop located just east of the junction of the Eccles Line and Trafford Park Line of Greater Manchester's light rail system, known as Metrolink...
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    Broadway tram stop (category Tram stops on the Eccles – Ashton route)
    the street-running section up to Weaste and Eccles was constructed. The Broadway - Eccles section of the line opened on 21 July 2000. This stop is named...
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  • † Littleborough Mills Hill Rochdale Smithy Bridge Salford Clifton Eccles ( Eccles) Irlam Moorside Patricroft Salford Central Salford Crescent Swinton...
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    Warrington and Liverpool line as far as Cornbrook; just west of which the Eccles Line diverges to the north-west, and the Altrincham line runs south-west under...
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    the Eccles Line of the Manchester Metrolink. This connection opened in 1999 and was extended onward to Eccles in 2000. The section of the Eccles Line from...
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    the same way. On 15 September 1830, Eccles was site of the world's first railway accident. During a stop in Eccles to take on water, William Huskisson...
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    simplified classical design by Paul Philippe Cret. The Eccles Building under construction in 1936 The Eccles Building in 1937 Cret was a naturalized U.S. citizen...
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  • Dynamites. Son of a tailor and builder, Eccles spent his childhood in the countryside of the parish of Saint Mary. Eccles had an itinerant childhood due to...
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    Cornbrook tram stop (category Tram stops on the Eccles – Ashton route)
    network's Altrincham, Eccles, Airport, Trafford Park and South Manchester lines. The station opened on 6 December 1999 for interchange (line transfers) only...
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    and Eccles since 2015, a member of UK Labour. From the general election of 2010 Salford will be part of the new constituency of Salford and Eccles. The...
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    Weaste tram stop (category Tram stops on the Eccles – Ashton route)
    Manchester Shudehill and Worsley via Eccles "Timeline — Manchester Metrolink — LRTA". lrta.info. Retrieved 17 March 2024. "Eccles : Routes : Metrolink : TheTrams...
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    Salford Quays tram stop (category Tram stops on the Eccles – Ashton route)
    Metrolink system. It is located beside Salford Quays, on Metrolink's Eccles Line. It opened as part of Phase 2 of the system's expansion, on 6 December...
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  • the London and North Western Railway's Manchester and Wigan Railway line from Eccles to the junction west of Tyldesley station and its continuance south...
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    Eccles railway station serves the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway...
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    in the north and the west of Greater Manchester, including Bolton, Bury, Eccles, Middleton, Rochdale, Salford and the Trafford Centre. The bus station is...
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    Eccles invented the term diode to describe an evacuated glass tube containing two electrodes; an anode and a cathode. Following World War I Eccles' main...
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    The Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) is a light rail/tram line on the Manchester Metrolink in Greater Manchester, running from North Manchester to Rochdale...
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    the north. The entire line runs along a converted heavy rail line, and was reopened with the Altrincham Line, another Metrolink line converted from heavy...
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    stop at Eccles Road. The station takes its name from being outside of the now abandoned original village of Eccles although the church Eccles St. Mary...
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