Page "Oldham Loop Line" Paragraph 23

By summer 2011, the project was running several months behind schedule.

The reasons include diversion of resources to other Metrolink extensions to Chorlton and Ashton ( themselves badly behind schedule ) and issues with the new signalling system proposed for systemwide use.

No section of Metrolink has opened as originally scheduled since the tram system's inception.

Announced dates for Oldham loop openings were shown on Metrolink's own site as follows on August 11, 2011