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Your Expanding Metrolink Tram Network Metrolink network Choosing your ticket Buying your ticket Welcome to your expanding Metrolink offers a range of ticket types to suit a wide variety Metrolink ticket machines are located on the stop platforms of travel needs. and are easy to use. Simply touch the screen and follow Metrolink tram network A guide to using trams To make a journey between two stops on the network on a single the on-screen instructions. If you aren’t sure what you are looking for, just press the button marked at any time to in Greater Manchester day, choose a Single or Return ticket. You must complete your Since the first lines to Bury and Altrincham outward journey within 120 minutes of buying your ticket. get more information. Greater Manchester tram network map You can buy any type of Metrolink ticket from our machines, opened in 1992, the network has grown – Regular benefits including a Weekly Season Ticket, but remember that you with lines to Eccles, MediaCityUK, Chorlton, will need a valid Metrolink Travel Club ID Card to buy a If you use the tram regularly you can choose from a Weekly, Oldham, Rochdale, Didsbury, Ashton and January 2015 4-weekly or Annual Season Ticket. 4-weekly or Annual Season Ticket which allows you unlimited Manchester Airport bringing passengers into travel on your specified route for the period covered by your ticket. You can also use the ticket machines to buy Combined Day Travelcard tickets that allow you to travel on Metrolink and the heart of Manchester city centre. If your Season Ticket or Return Ticket covers a journey into the on rail and bus services too. 250 Trams will now run to 92 stops covering 92km (57 miles) P+R Weaste City Zone, you get the added benefit of being able to use it for ECCLES Langworthy Ladywell 217 Broadway unlimited travel within the City Zone for the same period.P+R You can pay for your tickets by credit or debit card, or by of track – and the multi-million pound expansion of the Bowker 369 Vale Prestwich Whitefield P+R Milnrow Newbold ROCHDALE P P cash. Metrolink ticket machines accept all bank notes and MEDIACITYUK Harbour City BURY Newhey TOWN system continues – with new lines, a fleet of state-of- To purchaseCrumpsall a 4-weeklyHeaton P orBesses AnnualP+R Radcliffe Season Ticket you firstKingsway needRochdale CENTRE P Anchorage 216 Business Park Railway P Park o’ th’ Barn coins except for £50 notes, 2p and 1p coins. ALTRINCHAM P P+R Station Salford Quays the-art trams, on-stop ticket machines and improved to getAbraham a free Moss Metrolink Travel Club ID100 Card, whichShaw are and Crompton available Navigation Derker Exchange Quay Queens 270 Road P+R You can also buy Season Tickets at PayPoint P+R from Roadany Transport for Greater Manchester Travelshop251 or you can passenger facilities and information. Metrolink is the Pomona Oldham P+R No trams call Central Oldham Timperley Deansgate- at Victoria Central South 81 Old 190 Mumps agents where you see the PayPoint symbol, 108 Trafford Bar Castlefield download anPark applicationFailsworth P+R formChadderton atWestwood www.metrolink.co.uk. Weekly MANCHESTER P+R Sale Stretford Trafford Victoria UK’s premier tram network. AIRPORT CITY ZONE P P Monsall Newton Hollinwood Freehold Oldham or at www.metrolink.co.uk Brooklands Dane Season Tickets Heathare and available on stopKing at Street our ticket vending machines. Shadowmoss Road CORNBROOK Market St Werburgh’s Street Shudehill Moston For more information visit www.metrolink.co.uk Road Firswood St Peter’s Robinswood It’s not possible to purchase tickets on board, so please Barlow Moor Road Chorlton Square Peel Hall Road 300 P+R or email [email protected] Northern Piccadilly make sure that you buy a ticket before you travel because Moor Withington PICCADILLYGreaterEtihad freedomClayton Cemetery Ashton Benchill Roundthorn Road Moor Sale Gardens 200 Campus Hall Road Audenshaw P+R West Wythenshawe Water Burton Road ASHTON- Town Centre Park travelling without a ticket can cost you £100. Crossacres Martinscroft Baguley Wythenshawe P+R UNDER-LYNE 302 New If youHolt wantVelopark the freedomEdge Lane Droylsden to travelAshton anywhere on the network then a Park P+R 195 West EAST Islington Town Moss DIDSBURY Didsbury Didsbury Day Travelcard offers great value for money. Village Choose between a peak Day Travelcard, which is valid anytime, or an off-peak Day Travelcard which is valid after 9.30am Mondays to Fridays, and all day Saturday, Sunday and public holidays. You can make as many journeys as you like to different places on the network up to the last tram of the day. © Transport for Greater Manchester 2014 14-1485-142651-TRAM Key Metrolink tram service Metrolink lines Journey time Extra specific line information Better value for money Mon – Fri 0713 – 2001 Piccadilly to Altrincham, Metrolink stop Trams run on the Metrolink network from approximately Altrincham – Piccadilly 29 minutes 0711 – 2011 Altrincham to Piccadilly 0600 to 0030 Mondays to Thursdays, with last trams Travel Club ID and igo pass Line interchange For thoseMon using – Fri 0703 –the 2015 Bury tram to Abraham at Moss, weekends or as a family, you can get even running later on Fridays and Saturdays. On Sundays, Bury – Abraham Moss 19 minutes 0638 – 1950 Abraham Moss to Bury trams start later and finish earlier in a time range of METROLINK A Metrolink Travel Club ID Card is required as proof of identity to Rail interchange approximately 0700 to 2230. Altrincham – Bury better55 minutes value.Altrincham – St Peter’s Square, approximate journey time 23 minutes. For more information on using Metrolink: Bury – Shudehill, approximate journey time 25 minutes. Here are a few good reasons to use Bus interchange IS CHANGING Details of the specific first and last tram times from each Eccles trams call at MediaCityUK Mon – Fri before 0745 and after 2000, purchase a 4-weekly or Annual Season Ticket. You can get one from Eccles – Ashton-under-Lyne 1 hour 4 mins Manchester Airport stop are displayed on the stop platform, or from the As an individual,Sat before 0955 and you after 1835, can Sun alltravel day. anywhere on the networkDuring improvement work the Metrolink service: Go online information sources shown on the back of this guide. At all other times use the MediaCityUK service. there may be changes to your any of Transport for Greater Manchester’s Travelshops or apply Cycle Hub from 6pm Friday to the last tram on Sunday for just £5.80normal service. with Membership required MediaCityUK – Piccadilly 20 minutes Mon – Fri 0647 – 2011, Sat 0707 – 2011. www.metrolink.co.ukBike stands or bike lockers are available @MCRMetrolink at most stops. At all other times use the Eccles service. Please check before you travel. online at www.metrolink.co.uk Save time P+R Park & Ride For full details see ‘Stop information’ Number of car spaces available a Weekend Travelcard. 100 at www.metrolink.co.uk East Didsbury – Rochdale 1 hour 22 mins East Didsbury – Shudehill, approximate journey time 31 minutes. Car Park Rochdale Town Centre – Shudehill, approximate P Town Centre journey time 51 minutes. You will need to produce your Season Ticket and Travel CallLimited spacesMetrolink available Customer Services If you’re travelling with the family, up to three children accompanied It takes much less time than the equivalent Manchester Airport – Cornbrook 40 minutes Club ID Cards together when asked to do so by a Metrolink 0161 205 2000 by one or two adults can travel anywhere on the network for a day peak-time journey by road. Passenger Services Representative. 6am – 11pm Monday to Friday with a Family Day Travelcard for just £6.20, or you can get the Save money 8am – 8pm Saturday and Sunday most out of a weekend with unlimited travel for just £8.00 with a Young people aged 11–16 who live or attend school in Greater 10am – 6pm public holidays Family Weekend Travelcard. Manchester are eligible for an igo pass from Transport for Greater If you currently drive into the city centre you’ll Manchester. It provides a readily accepted proof of eligibility on all find that, compared to the cost of fuel and parking, Accessibility Eligible for concessionary travel? public transport across Greater Manchester and is valid up to the travelling by Metrolink represents great value. Metrolink trams and stops have been designed to make access 31 August following your 16th birthday. If you are aged 11 or over Children and concessionary pass holders can get great value travel as easy as possible for all our passengers. you must carry proof of your age to pay the child fare. For more Save hassle options on Metrolink. information: igo.tfgm.com For full details our Metrolink Access Guide can be downloaded at: With services running every 12 minutes* to and • Accompanied children under 5 travel free. www.metrolink.co.uk/using-the-network from the city centre, your next tram is never far away. • Children aged 5–15 inclusive can travel at child fares but proof of Ride your bike to the tram For all information on public transport age (igo pass recommended) is required from age 11. To make it easier to get to your nearest Metrolink stop we have or to request this leaflet in other formats: • Holders of concessionary passes for older people* can travel for improved the facilities for bike storage. Bike stands or bike lockers Call Traveline free after 9.30am by using their pass to touch in at a yellow smart are available at most stops. reader at the start of their journey and touching out at the end.
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