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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]
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
The Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority did, however, commission in 2004 a feasibility study into converting the Marple line for tram-train operation; [citation needed] and in this revised form it remains on the "reserve list" of proposals for future Metrolink expansion, and was proposed to the Department for Transport in 2008 as a ...
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.
An existing Metrolink M5000 tram at Piccadilly. A class 399 tram-train vehicle in operation on the Sheffield Supertram network. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is investigating the use of similar vehicles to extend services onto under-utilised heavy rail lines across Greater Manchester and beyond.
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 – 2014, as ...
The Eccles Line is a tram line of the Manchester Metrolink in Greater Manchester running from Manchester to Eccles via Salford Quays, with a short spur to MediaCityUK.It was opened in phases during 1999–2000 as part of the second phase of the system's development.
The Firema T-68 was a model of light rail passenger vehicle first operated on the Manchester Metrolink network in Greater Manchester, England in 1992.It was constructed by Firema specifically as a high-floor, articulated bi-directional tram to operate solely on the Manchester Metrolink system.