As we reach the October half-term school holidays its time for some more engineering works to take place on tramways in England. We’ve already reported about how works are taking place at Infirmary Road in Sheffield, but there will also be additional works impacting services on both London Trams and Manchester Metrolink.
For London Trams the works got underway on Saturday 25th October and will be continuing until Sunday 2nd November 2025. They will be taking place on the Wimbledon line with no trams operating between Therapia Lane and Wimbledon. A replacement bus service (T1) will run between Waddon Marsh and Wimbledon calling at Ampere Way, Therapia Lane (Coomber Way), Beddington Lane, Mitcham Common (The Ravensbury), Mitcham Junction, Mitcham, Belgrave Walk, Morden Way (for Phipps Bridge) and Morden Road (for Merton Park). Anyone wishing to travel to Dundonald Road is advised to go to Wimbledon.
During the works trams will run as follows:
- Therapia Lane to Beckenham Junction
- Therapia Lane to Elmers End
- New Addington to West Croydon
And then in Manchester it’s the Bury line which is impacted by works between Saturday 25th and Thursday 30th October 2025. In this period there will be no trams between Crumpsall and Bury with a replacement bus running Bury to Victoria.
Trams will run as follows:
- Piccadilly to Crumpsall
- Altrincham to Piccadilly (peak times only)
- Altrincham to Etihad Campus
- Ashton-under-Lyne to Eccles (via MediaCityUK)
- Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury (via Exchange Square)
- Shaw and Crompton to East Didsbury (via Exchange Square) peak times only
- Manchester Airport to Victoria
- The Trafford Centre to Deansgate-Castlefield
The Etihad Campus to MediaCityUK service will not run with additional doubles used on the Ashton-Eccles service instead.
The Metrolink works will allow for essential beam replacement works to take place at Whitefield Tunnel whilst construction work will also take place on a substation near Heaton Park. The substation works are part of a project to make the network more resilient and enable more trams to run in the future (additional substations are also being built at Hagside and Collyhurst).