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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.
In July 2013, the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee announced that it planned to enhance the experience of travelling on Metrolink by tapping into Manchester City Council's grant from the UK Urban Broadband Fund and using it to provide Metrolink passengers with free Wi-Fi when on board. The scheme began with a trial on a single tram ...
Alexander Dennis Enviro400 acquired from Stagecoach Manchester at Piccadilly Gardens in January 2025. Metroline was founded in April 1989 as a business unit of London Regional Transport ahead of the privatisation of London bus services, being sold in October 1994 in a management buyout worth £20 million (equivalent to £50,246,000 in 2023). [2]
The committee is made up of 33 councillors appointed from the ten Greater Manchester boroughs (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan), as well as the Mayor of Greater Manchester. [1] TfGM owns Metrolink – the United Kingdom’s largest light rail network – which is operated and ...
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.
The South Manchester Line (SML) is a tram line of the Manchester Metrolink in Manchester, England, running from Manchester city centre to Didsbury.The line opened as far as St. Werburgh's Road in 2011 and then to East Didsbury in 2013 as part of phase three of the system's expansion, along a former railway trackbed.
Wythenshawe Park is a tram stop for Phase 3b of the Manchester Metrolink. The station opened on 3 November 2014 [ 1 ] and is on the Airport Line on Wythenshawe Road near the junction of Moor Road. [ 2 ]
The Trafford Park Line is a light rail line on the Manchester Metrolink network in Greater Manchester, England, running from Pomona to The Trafford Centre. Its name derives from Trafford Park, an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, and the first planned industrial estate in the world. [1] The line opened in March 2020.