#picc-vic

[ageofthetrain]

12 October 1971: SELNEC advertises in the Guardian for its next big thing - the PIcc-Vic link.

[blech]

There would have been three new stations, at the central library, Whitworth Street and the junction of Market and Cross Streets – the latter linked to the Void. Moving pavements were envisaged as well as escalators, connecting the system with Piccadilly Gardens, Oxford Road station and St Peter's Square.

Martin Wainwright in The Guardian: Manchester's tube train that never was (h/t Chris; thanks).

Just another 1960s utopian scheme that hit the buffers of the early 1970s financial crisis. Ah well.