Category Archives: Manchester Metrolink

Transport for Greater Manchester are holding a series of informal drop in sessions for people to find out more about the Metrolink extension to Manchester Airport which is due to open in 2016. Work on utility diversions for this line … Continue reading →

Manchester Metrolink were hit by another attempted cable theft on Wednesday 20th June which caused major disruption for passengers on the Bury line. The vandals attempted to steal the overhead wire between Heaton Park and Bowker Vale early in the … Continue reading →

The latest service performance statistics on the Manchester Metrolink system have been released on the TfGM Committee website – http://www.transportforgreatermanchestercommittee.gov.uk/download/4374/item_08_metrolink_service_performance. This latest report gives details on periods 12 and 13 between Monday 5th March and Sunday 28th April 2012.

A points failure just outside Victoria on Tuesday 26th June caused delays on the Bury and Oldham Metrolink lines. Although initially all services on these lines were suspended trams between Bury and the City Centre soon resumed although there was … Continue reading →

Last week on British Trams Online we reported that subject to the successful completion of testing services on the new Manchester Metrolink line to Oldham would start on Wednesday 13th June and that is exactly what happened when at 0524 … Continue reading →

Even before trams had started passenger service on the Oldham line testing commenced on another piece of the expanding Manchester Metrolink jigsaw on Monday 11th June – the East Manchester line between Piccadilly and Droyslden.

Further engineering works on Manchester Metrolink will see services suspended between Bury and Crumpsall all day on Sunday 24th June. A replacement bus will be put into operation between these two locations calling at all stops with a Metrolink ticket … Continue reading →

As from Tuesday 5th June the second Manchester Metrolink depot at Trafford was formally opened for operational staff which means that the first time some of the serviceable fleet is now based there for passenger use. Since the depot was … Continue reading →

It has been confirmed that the Manchester Metrolink line to Oldham Mumps will open to passengers from the start of service on Wednesday 13th June, subject to the usual provisos of the satisfactory completion of testing in time. This will … Continue reading →

Work continues across Greater Manchester to extend Metrolink to Oldham, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne and East Didsbury with some of these lines expected to open sometime this year. We bring you another “News Extra” photo gallery showing some of the latest images … Continue reading →

The Altrincham line of Manchester Metrolink suffered more problems on Monday 28th May because of an overhead line fault. It was reported in the Manchester Evening News that the overhead line snapped at Old Trafford and shattered the driver’s windscreen … Continue reading →

Because of the Great Manchester Cycle Event taking place on Monday 4th June no Metrolink services will run to MediaCityUK before 1600. Any passengers are advised to travel on Eccles line services and use either Broadway or Harbour City. Normal … Continue reading →

Nearly a year after the event the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) have released their report into an incident which occurred on Manchester Metrolink on 5th June 2011. A pedestrian was hit and fatality injured at Piccadilly Gardens at 0016 … Continue reading →

The work to build the Oldham Town Centre extension of Manchester Metrolink is continuing at pace with another road closure announced for two months to facilitate utility diversion work and to construct the tramway trackslab in King Street. King Street … Continue reading →

Metrolink M5000 3053 has become the latest of the new trams for Manchester to arrive in the City. The tram was seen coming off the M602 at 1110 on Saturday 26th May from where it would then have gone to … Continue reading →

Unfortunately the past week has seen more delays on Manchester Metrolink with the Eccles, Bury and Altrincham lines all seeing problems at some point with not only the usual tram failures to blame but also overhead line failures.

Transport for Greater Manchester have moved a step closer to getting the much needed Second City Centre Crossing by putting an application into the Department for Transport for a Transport and Works Act Order. This is the formal process required … Continue reading →

Trams are now testing on the Manchester Metrolink extension through to Oldham Mumps with a start of passenger services on this much delayed line now seemingly approaching. As well as trams running through to the temporary Oldham Mumps stop progress … Continue reading →

Unfortunately the past week has seen another pair of T68s fail in Manchester City Centre causing further delays on the Metrolink network. This time the incident happened at approximately 1530 and involved 1008 (for the second week in a row) … Continue reading →

1004 has become the second of the T68 trams on Manchester Metrolink to be withdrawn from service following on from 1011.  1004 last ran in service during the evening of Wednesday 16th May when it was paired with 1016 on … Continue reading →