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Manchester Metrolink[ note 1 ] is a tram / light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. [ 10 ] The network has 99 stops along 64 miles (103 km) of standard-gauge route, [ 1 ] making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom. [ 11 ] Over the 2022/23 financial year 36 million passenger journeys were made on the system. [ 1 ]
A M5000 tram passing over the purpose built viaduct over the River Mersey on the Airport Line. The Airport Line is a tram line of the Manchester Metrolink in Manchester, England, running from Manchester city centre to Manchester Airport via Wythenshawe. It opened in November 2014 as part of phase three of the system's expansion.
In 1982, the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE; the successor to SELNEC PTE) concluded that an overground metropolitan light rail system to replace or complement the region's under-used heavy railways was the most economical solution to improving Greater Manchester's public transport network, which suffered from poor integration and outdated infrastructure; [4] a Rail ...
20 July 1992: A spur from Piccadilly Gardens to the like named tram stop and further to Manchester Piccadilly station is opened, creating a 'delta' junction where the spur began. Piccadilly tram stop was originally referred to as, or named Piccadilly Undercroft. April 1997: Altram, a consortium of the Serco, Gio.
A M5000 tram between Ashton West and Ashton-under-Lyne, running along Lord Sheldon Way. The East Manchester Line (EML) is a tram line of the Manchester Metrolink in Greater Manchester, England, running from Manchester to Ashton-under-Lyne via Droylsden and Audenshaw. The line opened in 2013 as part of phase three of the system's expansion.
Shudehill Interchange is a transport hub between Manchester Victoria station and the Northern Quarter in Manchester city centre, England, which comprises a Metrolink stop and a bus station. History [ edit ]
Holt Town is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line (EML) of Greater Manchester 's light-rail Metrolink system. The station opened on 11 February 2013, after a three-day free trial for local residents, as part of Phase 3a of the Metrolink's expansion. [1][2][3] It is beside the River Medlock in Holt Town, between Ancoats and Bradford.
talk. edit. The Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) is a light rail/ tram line on the Manchester Metrolink in Greater Manchester, running from North Manchester to Rochdale town centre via Oldham, reusing most of the trackbed of the former Oldham Loop railway line which closed in 2009. The line was re-opened in a modified form as a tramway from 2012 ...