A Bad Reputation - But Are We On Wrong Track?

Damon Wilkinson checks out Metrolink's lowest rated tram stop

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From your local takeaway, to entire continents, there's not much in life that Google's review function doesn't let you rate.

But when you start ranking stuff like that, something has to be bottom of the pile.

And in the of Greater Manchester's Metrolink stops, that something is Oldham King Street.

With a score of just 2.7 out of five on Google's review function, it's the lowest rated of the region's 99 tram stops.

So one Thursday morning I went along try and find out why passengers seem to dislike it so much.

I've used the stop a few times in the past to get into Oldham town centre from the M.E.N. office in Chadderton and, to be honest, never gave it a second thought.

It's got all the usual stuff you'd expect at a Metrolink station and always seemed to be fairly clean and modern, so it came as a bit of a surprise to discover it ranked bottom of the pile.

Having opened in January 2014 on the site of the old King Street Baptist Church, it's a fairly new station on the edge of Oldham town centre.