[steam for ever]

It is at its worst I think in heaton park tunnel.

There is the Navigation road bottle neck which is an enourmous problem for train and tram. If you ask me you need four platforms at that station too. Until then neither metrolink or mid cheshire line services can reach their full potential.

By the way I did here about planned Northern services that would terminate at Altrincham. Platform 2 is little used, so could pointwork be altered to allow trams and trains to use it?
Realistically it is never going to be used as much as platform one for trams and for trains to terminate in three and four would create congestion. To be honest Metrolink have never needed that platform. Even when the canopy on one was repaired there is enough space before the canopy starts to still have trams running into that platform.