List of Manchester Metrolink tram stops explained

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. Phase 1 continued and lines through the city centre and to Altrincham were built and opened on 27 April and 15 June of that year respectively, along with a short spur to Manchester Piccadilly railway station via Piccadilly Gardens on 20 July.

Before Phase 2, in 1998, High Street tram stop was closed, and Market Street was redeveloped to a bi-directional tram stop.

Phase 2 gave the network 12 new tram stops: a new interchange at Cornbrook was opened, plus a new line through Salford Quays up to Broadway tram stop in 1999, and was extended to Eccles in 2000.

Before Phase 3 began, on 20 September 2010, MediaCityUK tram stop opened on a small spur of the Eccles Line, and G-Mex tram stop was renamed to Deansgate-Castlefield, its current name.

Phase 3a involved the construction of 36 new stops and new lines to Oldham and Rochdale, Droylsden and Chorlton. The first stops as part of Phase 3a opened on 7 July 2011 on the South Manchester Line up to St Werburgh's Road and the final stop opened on 31 March 2014 on the Oldham and Rochdale Line up to Rochdale Town Centre.

Woodlands Road tram stop closed in 2013 to make way for two new stops at Queens Road, serving the Metrolink depot and transport museum, and Abraham Moss, serving the library and leisure centre in the area.

During Phase 3b, a new 9miles line to Manchester Airport became operational in November 2014 - over a year ahead of schedule.^[1] ^[2] The East Manchester Line was extended from Droylsden to Ashton-under-Lyne, and the South Manchester Line from St Werburgh's Road in Chorlton to East Didsbury.

After the Airport Line opened, the Manchester Metrolink was complete, but could still be extended to regions not reached, which led to the Trafford Park Line opening to the Trafford Centre in March 2020.

The network now consists of over 62miles of track, making it the largest tram system in the United Kingdom and second only to the London Underground in terms of an urban commuter network. The Metrolink system has 99 stops.

Primary future proposals include tram-trains to Bolton, Heywood, Hale, and Wigan, a spur off the Bury Line to Middleton, Ashton to Stalybridge, the Wythenshawe Loop, and most likely the first to happen,^[3] an extension from East Didsbury to Stockport's interchange.

List of Metrolink stops

Current stops

Borough	Tram stops
Manchester	42
Trafford	18
Oldham	10
Salford	10
Tameside	7
Bury	6
Rochdale	6
Bolton	0
Stockport	0
Wigan	0
Total	99

Correct as of 8 March 2024

Tram stop^[4] ! scope="col" class="unsortable"
Photo	Line	Metropolitan borough	District	Opened	Zone	Footfall 2021/22^[5]	Notes
			Manchester	Cheetham Hill		2	153,900	For Abraham Moss Library and College Campus.
Altrincham (Altrincham)		Altrincham	Trafford	Altrincham		4	1,755,800	For Altrincham Interchange. Terminus of the Altrincham Line.
		Eccles	Salford	Salford Quays	6 December 1999	2	230,721	For Anchorage Quay.
		East Manchester	Tameside			3	128,400	For Ashton Leisure Complex and Snipe Retail Park.
		East Manchester	Tameside	Ashton-under-Lyne		3	499,100	For Ashton-under-lyne Interchange and its railway station. Terminus of the East Manchester Line.
		East Manchester	Tameside			3	85,200	For Leisure and retail complex and Tameside stadium
		East Manchester	Tameside	Audenshaw		3	129,800	Serves Audenshaw.
		Airport	Manchester	Baguley		3	82,800	Serves Baguley and Roundthorn Industrial Estate.
		Airport	Manchester	Chorlton-cum-Hardy		2/3	290,700	For Chorlton Park.
		Trafford Park	Trafford	Trafford Park		3	219,300	For Trafford Palazzo.
		Airport	Manchester	Wythenshawe Civic Centre		4	122,200	For Benchill Health Centre, and sixth form college
		Bury	Bury	Besses o' th' Barn		3	319,400	Serves small area of Whitefield, Manchester.
		Bury	Manchester			2/3	310,500	Serves Higher Blackley and Bowker Vale areas of Manchester.
		Eccles	Salford	Salford Quays	6 December 1999	2	87,521	Serves MediaCityUK, along with Harbour City and MediaCityUK tram stops.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Brooklands		3/4	768,900	Serves the Brooklands area of Sale.
		South Manchester	Manchester	Didsbury		3	786,300	For Withington, Withington Community Hospital, and West Didsbury.
		Bury	Bury	Bury		4	1,699,400	For Bury Interchange and the town centre.Terminus of the Bury Line.
		East Manchester	Tameside	Droylsden		3	112,800	Serves parts of Droylsden and Fairfield.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Manchester	Newton Heath		2	147,500	For Central Park (business park), and Moston.
		South Manchester	Manchester	Chorlton-cum-Hardy		2	1,216,800	Serves Chorlton.
		East Manchester	Manchester	Clayton		2	100,900	For Clayton Hall and the rest of Clayton.
		Altrincham	Manchester			1/2	1,289,000	Major interchange on the Metrolink network.
		Airport	Manchester	Wythenshawe Civic Centre		4	54,800	For Crossacres and Wythenshawe Fire Station.
		Bury	Manchester	Crumpsall		2	358,500	Serves Crumpsall.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Sale		3	275,100	For Priory Gardens and parts of Sale.
(Deansgate)		First City Crossing	Manchester	Castlefield		1	2,506,400	For Great Northern Warehouse, Mamucium Roman Fort, Beetham Tower, and Deansgate Locks. Formerly named G-Mex (1992–2010). A third platform was added in 2015.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Derker		3/4	265,900	Serves Derker in Oldham.
		South Manchester	Manchester	Didsbury		3	542,400	For Didsbury Park.
		East Manchester	Tameside	Droylsden		3	199,200	Serves parts of Droylsden and Audenshaw. Former terminus of the East Manchester Line. (Feb-Oct 2013)
		South Manchester	Manchester	Parrs Wood		3	598,300	For East Didsbury railway station, and Parrs Wood bus station.Terminus of the South Manchester Line.
		Eccles	Salford	Eccles		2	390,100	For Eccles Interchange.Terminus of the Eccles Line.
		East Manchester	Tameside	Droylsden		2/3	198,000	Serves parts of East Manchester and Droylsden.
		East Manchester	Manchester	Beswick		2	326,400	For the Etihad Stadium and Sportcity.
		Eccles	Salford	Salford Quays	6 December 1999	2	798,821	For Exchange Quay and Ordsall.
		Second City Crossing	Manchester	Deansgate		1	1,611,500	For the Manchester Arndale.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Failsworth		3	242,100	Serves Failsworth and parts of New Moston.
		South Manchester	Trafford	Firswood		2	318,800	Serves parts of Old Trafford as well as Firswood.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Werneth		3	207,100	Serves Freehold, and parts of Chadderton and Werneth.
		Eccles	Salford	Salford Quays	6 December 1999	2	377,621	Serves Salford Quays, and MediaCityUK, along with Broadway and MediaCityUK tram stops.
		Bury	Bury	Prestwich		3	572,000	For Heaton Park and parts of Prestwich.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Hollinwood		3	241,900	Serves parts of Failsworth, New Moston, and Whitegate.
		East Manchester	Manchester	Bradford		2	66,300	Serves Bradford (Manchester), and parts of Beswick.
		Trafford Park	Trafford	Trafford Park		2	269,600	For the Imperial War Museum and Salford Quays.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Rochdale	Firgrove		4	181,700	For Kingsway Business Park and Firgrove.
		Eccles	Salford	Weaste		2	254,121	Named after Ladywell Roundabout. Serves Canterbury Gardens and parts of Trafford Park.
		Eccles	Salford	Seedley		2	198,821	Serves Langworthy and parts of Seedley and Salford.
(Airport railway station Manchester Airport)		Airport	Manchester	Ringway		4	233,900	For Manchester Airport and its railway station. Terminus of the Airport Line.
		First City Crossing	Manchester	Northern Quarter		1	1,668,500	For Manchester's main retail district, and the Manchester Arndale.
		Airport	Manchester	Baguley		4	96,700	Named after adjacent road. Serves parts of Baguley and Newall Green.
		MediaCityUK spur	Salford	MediaCityUK		2	936,021	For Salford Quays and MediaCityUK.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Rochdale	Milnrow		4	235,800	Serves the village of Milnrow.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Manchester	Monsall		2	76,900	Serves Monsall.
		Airport	Manchester	Baguley		3	136,600	For Wythenshawe Park, Brooklands Library, and Brookway Retail Park.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Altrincham		4	520,300	Mainline trains run on adjacent platform.For Altrincham and Navigation Recreation Ground.
		East Manchester	Manchester	New Islington		1	560,500	For New Islington, Bradford, and Ancoats.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Rochdale	Newbold		4	192,800	For Newbold, Rochdale, and Firgrove.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Rochdale	Newhey		4	122,200	For Minrow and Newhey.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Manchester	Newton Heath		2/3	193,300	For Newton Heath and parts of Moston.
		Airport	Manchester	Northern Moor		3	171,300	For Sale Moor and Northern Moor.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Old Trafford		2	958,200	For Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Oldham Town Centre		3	478,900	For The Spindles shopping centre.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Oldham Town Centre		3	252,600	For Oldham Sixth Form College and leisure centre.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Oldham Town Centre		3	274,300	For Oldham Mumps bus station.
		Trafford Park	Trafford	Trafford Park		2/3	102,100	Named after Parkway Circle. For Bowlers Exhibition Centre.
		Airport	Manchester	Woodhouse Park		4	50,400	For Peel Hall, Heald Green railway station and Woodhouse Park.
(Piccadilly)		Piccadilly spur	Manchester	Piccadilly		1	2,379,400	For Manchester Piccadilly railway station.
Piccadilly Gardens		Piccadilly spur	Manchester	Piccadilly	20 July 1992	1	2,618,900	For Manchester Piccadilly Gardens bus station.
		Eccles	Trafford	Pomona Docks	6 December 1999	2	23,730	Interchange stop for Eccles and Trafford Park lines. For Pomona Docks.
		Bury	Bury	Prestwich		3	735,400	For Prestwich town centre.
		Bury	Manchester	Cheetham Hill		2	142,300	For Cheetham Hill, Museum of Transport, Queens Road Metrolink depot and Queens Road bus depot
		Bury	Bury	Radcliffe		4	573,300	For Radcliffe town centre.
		Airport	Manchester	Woodhouse Park		4	28,700	For Woodhouse Park and Wythenshawe Civic Centre.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Rochdale	Rochdale Town Centre		4	208,000	For Rochdale railway station.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Rochdale	Rochdale Town Centre		4	544,200	For Rochdale Interchange and Number One Riverside. Terminus of the Oldham-Rochdale Line.
		Airport	Manchester	Baguley		3/4	235,500	For Roundthorn industrial estate and Wythenshawe Hospital.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Sale		3	1,097,100	For Sale town centre.
		Airport	Trafford	Sale Moor		3	138,300	For Sale Water Park and Sale Moor.
		Eccles	Salford	Salford Quays	6 December 1999	2	459,821	For Salford Quays. Close to the site of former Salford Docks railway station.
		Airport	Manchester	Moss Nook		4	76,400	For Moss Nook and Woodhouse Park.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Shaw and Crompton		4	497,200	For Shaw and Crompton, High Crompton, and Heyside.
(Shudehill Interchange)		First City Crossing	Manchester	Northern Quarter		1	710,000	For The Printworks and Manchester Shudehill bus station.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Chadderton		3	215,000	For Chadderton and Butler Green.
		First City Crossing	Manchester	Petersfield		1	4,930,000	Closed from 28 June 2015 – 28 August 2016 for re-development and was transformed into a four-platform interchange due to Phase 2CC.
		South Manchester	Manchester	Chorlton-cum-Hardy		2/3	279,500	For interchange with South Manchester and Airport lines. Former terminus of the South Manchester Line.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Stretford		2/3	775,500	For Stretford town centre, Longford Park and Turn Moss Playing Fields.
The Trafford Centre		Trafford Park	Trafford	Trafford Park		3	515,400	For The Trafford Centre shopping centre and its bus station.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Timperley		4	536,700	For West Timperley and Boradheath.
		Altrincham	Trafford	Old Trafford		2	855,900	For Old Trafford. Interchange stop with the Altrincham and South Manchester Lines.
		East Manchester	Manchester	Clayton		2	212,700	For The Velodrome, Eastlands, Clayton, and Etihad Campus.
(Manchester Victoria)		Bury	Manchester	Victoria		1	1,855,500	Redeveloped from 2014-2015 with two extra platforms (4). Interchange stop for the Bury and Oldham-Rochdale lines. For Manchester Victoria railway station.
		Trafford Park	Trafford	Trafford Park		2	62,600	For Westbrook Business Park and Trafford Park freight terminal.
		Eccles	Salford	Weaste		2	204,021	For Weaste, Seedley, and Buile Hill Park.
		South Manchester	Manchester	Didsbury		3	414,900	For West Didsbury and Withington.
		Oldham and Rochdale	Oldham	Westwood		3	126,900	For Boundary Park, Chadderton, Westwood, and Werneth.
		Trafford Park	Trafford	Trafford Park		2	333,700	For Old Trafford Stadium and MediaCityUK.
		Bury	Bury	Whitefield		3/4	718,800	For Whitefield town centre.
		South Manchester	Manchester	Hough End		3	183,900	For Hough End and parts of Withington.
		Airport	Manchester	Northern Moor		3	159,800	For Wythenshawe Park and parts of Brooklands and Baguley.
		Airport	Manchester	Wythenshawe Town Centre		4	306,400	For Wythenshawe Interchange.

Former stops

scope=col	Stop	scope=col class="unsortable"	Photo	Line	scope=col	Metropolitan borough	scope=col	District	scope=col	Closed	Notes
scope=row			First City Crossing		Northern Quarter		Closed in 1998 due to car traffic requirements on High Street. Replaced with a bi-direction Market Street.
scope=row			First City Crossing		Piccadilly		Closed in 2013 due to insufficient capacity with the opening of new Metrolink lines. More services created a bottleneck and trams at this stop would frequently hold-up trams behind so the stop was removed.
scope=row			Bury				Closed to make way for Queens Road (serving the depot), and Abraham Moss (serving the library and school). Originally a railway station, which was closed for Metrolink.

Fictional stops

scope=col	Stop	scope=col class="unsortable"	Photo	Line(s)	scope=col	Metropolitan borough	scope=col	District	scope=col	First seen	Notes
scope=row							A fictional tram stop introduced into the Granada Television soap opera Coronation Street in 2018. The set is located at the Coronation Street set in MediaCityUK^[6]

Future

Proposed

Buckley Wells, Elton Reservoir and Sandhills have been proposed as additional stops on the Bury Line, as well as Cop Road on the Oldham and Rochdale Line.^[7] ^[8]

Plans for Buckley Wells tram stop were eventually cancelled.

Stop	Line	Metropolitan borough	District

	Wythenshawe Loop




	Wythenshawe Loop
Piccadilly Central	TBD	Manchester	Piccadilly
	Trafford Park Line	Salford	Barton-upon-Irwell
			Barton-upon-Irwell


			Trafford Park
	Wythenshawe Loop

Cancelled

Some stops were planned along new lines but were eventually dropped. All cancelled stops were scheduled to open before 2019 when the zonal fares system was implemented, so therefore, did not have a Metrolink zone.

scope=col	Stop	Line(s)	scope=col	Metropolitan borough	scope=col	District	scope=col	Metrolink Zone	scope=col	Planned opening	Notes
scope=row		Oldham and Rochdale Line	Rochdale	Rochdale	-	-	Was to open between Rochdale Railway Station and Rochdale Town Centre tram stops, just off of Drake Street.
scope=row		Airport Line			-	2016	Was to open between the current Barlow Moor Road and Sale Water Park tram stops, on the western end of Hardy Road in Chorlton.
scope=row		Airport Line			-	2016	Was to open immediately east of the M56 after the Metrolink bridge over it near Martinscroft.
scope=row		Airport Line			-	2016	-
scope=row		Airport Line			-	2016	Was to open as the last stop before Manchester Airport, along Aviator Way.

Platforms

Metrolink tram stops have between one and four platforms, though most (91) have two platforms. Some are island platforms allowing easier transfers between services.

Platforms	scope=col	Stops
4	St Peter's Square, Victoria
3	Crumpsall, Deansgate-Castlefield, Shaw and Crompton
2	All other stops
1	Eccles, Navigation Road, Newton Heath and Moston

Notes and References

Web site: Airport line . Metrolink.co.uk . 2014-09-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130520075437/http://www.metrolink.co.uk/futuremetrolink/Pages/airport-line.aspx . 20 May 2013 .
Web site: Manchester Metrolink line opens more than a year ahead of schedule . Guardian. . 2 November 2014 . 2014-11-03.
Web site: MSN . 2024-03-19 . www.msn.com.
Web site: Metrolink – Stop Information . Manchester Metrolink . . 2014-06-08.
Web site: Passenger numbers by Metrolink station. WhatDoTheyKnow. 2 August 2023. 28 August 2023.
News: Bourne. Dianne. First look at Coronation Street's new street. 15 March 2018. men. 12 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180315153157/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/coronation-street-new-set-victoria-14400072. 15 March 2018. live.
Web site: Metolink Network. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716213530/http://www.tfgm.com/pdfmaps/metrolink_phase3.pdf. 16 July 2011.
Web site: Archived copy . 7 January 2019 . 7 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190107181134/https://www.gmcameetings.co.uk/download/meetings/id/4048/9_gm_2040_transport_delivery_plan/ . dead .