CONSTRUCTION work on Manchester’s new Ordsall Chord is now well underway.
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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Read more in October’s edition of The RM