October will see more engineering work taking place on the Manchester Metrolink network. This is mostly at weekends although there will also a be a week-long closure during the October half-term break.
Sunday 5th October – Ashton and Bury lines
Track repair works will take place on the Ashton line with improvement works taking place on the Bury line
- No trams will run Etihad Campus to Ashton-under-Lyne
- No trams will run Crumpsall to Bury
- Replacement bus services will operate (the service from Ashton will extend to Piccadilly)
Trams will run:
- Crumpsall to Piccadilly
- Altrincham to Etihad Campus
- Eccles to Etihad Campus
- Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury
- Manchester Airport to Victoria
- The Trafford Centre to Deansgate-Castlefield
Sunday 19th October – Victoria and Bury line
Track repairs will take place at Victoria until 1000 with additional repair works on the Bury line all-day
- No trams will run Crumpsall to Bury
- Until 1000 no trams will run through Victoria with services from Rochdale Town Centre and Crumpsall terminating at Victoria, the East Didsbury line will terminate at Exchange Square and services from Manchester Airport will run to Piccadilly
- Bus replacement from Victoria to Piccadilly until 1100 and between Crumpsall and Bury all-day
Trams will run:
Until 1000
- Crumpsall to Victoria
- Altrincham to Etihad Campus
- Ashton to Eccles via MediaCityUK
- Rochdale Town Centre to Victoria
- East Didsbury to Exchange Square
- Manchester Airport to Piccadilly
- The Trafford Centre to Deansgate-Castlefield
From 1000
- Crumpsall to Piccadilly
- Altrincham to Etihad Campus
- Ashton to Eccles via MediaCityUK
- Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury
- Manchester Airport to Victoria
- The Trafford Centre to Deansgate-Castlefield
Saturday 25th to Thursday 30th October – Bury line
Improvement works will be taking place on the Bury lin
- No trams will run Crumpsall to Bury
- MediaCityUK to Etihad Campus service will not run owing to other service changes. Extra doubles will run on the Eccles line to increase capacity.
- Bus replacement to run
Trams will run:
Saturday
- Crumpsall to Piccadilly
- Altrincham to Piccadilly (peak)
- Altrincham to Etihad Campus
- Ashton to Eccles via MediaCityUK
- Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury
- Shaw & Crompton to East Didsbury (peak)
- Manchester Airport to Victoria
- The Trafford Centre to Deansgate-Castlefield
Sunday
- Crumpsall to Piccadilly
- Altrincham to Etihad Campus
- Ashton to Eccles via MediaCityUK
- Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury
- Manchester Airport to Victoria
- The Trafford Centre to Deansgate-Castlefield
Monday to Thursday
- Crumpsall to Piccadilly
- Altrincham to Piccadilly (peak)
- Altrincham to Etihad Campus
- Ashton to Eccles via MediaCityUK
- Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury
- Shaw & Crompton to East Didsbury (peak)
- Manchester Airport to Victoria
- The Trafford Centre to Deansgate-Castlefield
Full details of all forthcoming works on the TfGM website at https://tfgm.com/tram-improvement-works