Freehold tram stop

Freehold
Metrolink
An M5000 arrives at Freehold tram stop, in November 2012
Freehold Location of Freehold in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Chadderton
Local authority	Oldham
Coordinates	53°32′16″N 2°08′16″W / 53.5378°N 2.1379°WCoordinates: 53°32′16″N 2°08′16″W / 53.5378°N 2.1379°W
Platforms	2
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	K
Present status	In operation
Operations
Original operator	Metrolink
History
Opened	13 June 2012[1]
Oldham and Rochdale Line Legend Rochdale Town Centre Rochdale Railway Station Caldervale Line Newbold Rochdale Canal Kingsway Business Park Milnrow M62 Newhey Shaw and Crompton Derker Oldham Mumps Oldham Central Oldham King Street Westwood Freehold South Chadderton M60 Hollinwood Rochdale Canal Failsworth Newton Heath and Moston Caldervale Line Central Park Monsall to Queens Road Depot to Bury River Irk National Rail Manchester Victoria to Exchange Square to East Didsbury
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Freehold is a tram stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. It opened to passengers on 13 June 2012 as part of Phase 3a of the system's expansion,^[1] and is located on Block Lane in Chadderton at its boundary with Oldham in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, England.^[2][3]

Freehold Metrolink station serves the Cowhill and Block Lane areas of Chadderton and the adjacent Freehold area of Werneth, Oldham from which the station takes its name. The station is one of the newly built stops on what was the Oldham Loop Line.

Services

Services run mostly every 6 minutes on all routes.

Connecting bus routes

Freehold station is served by service 159 which stops outside the station on Block Lane. The 159 is operated by Manchester Community Transport and heads northbound to Chadderton town centre, continuing to Oldham, and runs southbound to Hollinwood, continuing to Middleton via Woodhouses, Failsworth and New Moston.

On nearby Denton Lane, Cowhill, First Greater Manchester service 415 provides a direct link to Middleton and Oldham, while the 419, operated by Manchester Community Transport also provides a link to Chadderton and Middleton plus to Ashton-under-Lyne via Hathershaw.^[4]

References

1. "Metrolink line to Oldham set to open". Transport for Greater Manchester. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
2. "the online repository of historic maps - maps page". Old-Maps. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
3. "Freehold Local Area Map" (PDF). Metrolink. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
4. "Transport for Greater Manchester - Journey Planning - Network Maps". Transport for Greater Manchester. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

External links

• LRTA Oldham Rochdale line
• Metrolink stop information
• Freehold area map