Controversial Ordsall Chord work underway

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CONSTRUCTION work on Manchester’s new Ordsall Chord is now well underway.rm-oct2016-p73

The project controversially severs the historic rail link into the original Liverpool & Manchester Railway Liverpool Road station (now home to the city’s Museum of Science & Industry).

The view captured on September 1 shows the now vacated L&MR trackbed, with the bridge that formerly took the line over Water Street.


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