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Manchester has an urban light rail / tram system called Manchester Metrolink. Operated by a Keolis Amey consortium, Metrolink links the city centre to termini in Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, Manchester Airport, Rochdale and at The Trafford Centre. It is a high-frequency service, with trams running 5 times an hour on ...
The corridor forms the eastern end of the southerly Liverpool–Manchester line. The route is recognised as a significant bottleneck, magnified further by the opening of the Ordsall Chord in 2017 and timetable change in May 2018 which increased the number of services through Manchester city centre from 12 to 15 trains per hour. [3]
[7] [8] In October 2009, nine stations on the former Oldham Loop Line closed for conversion, [9] and future plans include the use of tram-trains to allow Metrolink to serve existing National Rail stations. [10] Manchester Piccadilly, the principal station for the City of Manchester and busiest station in Greater Manchester by number of passengers.
Panoramic view of the completed Ordsall Chord with the River Irwell, Aviva studios and the Prince's bridge in 2024. Ordsall Chord, also known as the Castlefield Curve, is a short railway line in Ordsall, Salford, England, which links Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria, designed to increase capacity and reduce journey times into and through Manchester.
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.
“By leveraging the new Class 730 electric trains, we will provide greater capacity and comfort for customers travelling to Manchester while also supporting the local economy by creating new job ...
The Hope Valley line is a trans-Pennine railway line in Northern England, linking Manchester with Sheffield.It was completed in 1894. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains, East Midlands Railway and TransPennine Express, while the quarries around Hope, producing stone and cement, provide a source of freight traffic.
At Manchester Piccadilly, it is likely a new NPR station will be needed and options include a new underground station or a new surface turnback station. Between Manchester and Sheffield, TfN is currently looking at whether it can upgrade the existing line or whether a new line will be needed.