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Manchester Metrolink [note 1] is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. [11] The network has 99 stops along 64 miles (103 km) of standard-gauge route, [12] making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom. [13] Over the 2023/24 financial year 42 million passenger journeys were made on the system. [2]
27 July 2021: As over 20% of the Metrolink's workforce was off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the enhanced service routes that operate during peak times to increase capacity (Altrincham–Bury, Shaw–East Didsbury etc.) could not do so, which forced the Metrolink to instead operate a Sunday service.
Cornbrook tram stop, a major interchange on the Metrolink network. Since opening in 1992, the Manchester Metrolink light-rail/tram system has grown to a network of 99 tram stops. The system opened on 6 April 1992 with 10 tram stops from Manchester Victoria station to Bury, beginning Phase 1 of the network's expansion.
Ashton-under-Lyne is a tram stop serving Ashton-under-Lyne on Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system, it is the terminus of the system's East Manchester Line (EML). ). It is located beside Ashton-under-Lyne bus station, and a few minutes walk away from Ashton-under-Lyne railway station, forming an Ashton travel
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Conversion to Metrolink operation: 1 July 1933; 3 May 1971 ... forming a 6-minute service between Bury and Manchester at peak ...
Clayton Hall in the Clayton area of Manchester, England, is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line (EML) of Transport for Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. The station opened on 11 February 2013, [2] [3] after a three-day free trial for local residents. [1] The station was constructed as part of Phase 3a of the Metrolink's ...
Audenshaw is a tram stop serving Audenshaw on the East Manchester Line (EML) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. The station opened on 9 October 2013 as part of Phase 3b of the system's expansion, [1] ahead of the originally-publicised schedule of the winter of 2013–14. [2]
From Manchester city centre, the route is shared with the Altrincham Line as far as Trafford Bar, and then the South Manchester Line as far as St Werburgh's Road. The Airport Line proper starts at a junction just south of St Werburgh's Road stop, where the line leaves the former railway trackbed, and runs off to the south-west.