Barton Dock Road tram stop

Barton Dock Road is a tram stop built on the Trafford Park Line of Greater Manchester's Metrolink light rail system. The stop is located on Barton Dock Road by the remodelled Peel Circle roundabout, and was created to serve passengers boarding and alighting at EventCity and the Trafford Centre.[1] It opened on 22 March 2020,[2][3]

Barton Dock Road
Metrolink
Barton Dock Road Location of Barton Dock Road in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Trafford Park
Local authority	Trafford
Coordinates	53.46577°N 2.34205°W / 53.46577; -2.34205
Platforms	2
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	3
Present status	In operation
History
Opened	22 March 2020
Trafford Park Line to Crumpsall (change at Cornbrook) Deansgate-Castlefield ( Deansgate) Bridgewater Canal 0:00 Cornbrook ( Zone 1 Zone 2 boundary) to Altrincham, East Didsbury & Manchester Airport Bridgewater Canal 0:02 Pomona Eccles Line to Eccles & MediaCityUK 0:04 Wharfside 0:06 Imperial War Museum footbridges to Lowry Centre or MediaCityUK Manchester Ship Canal 0:09 Village 0:11 Parkway ( Zone 2 Zone 3 boundary) Bridgewater Canal 0:15 Barton Dock Road 0:16 Intu Trafford Centre Trafford Quays Manchester Ship Canal  M60  Salford Reds Port Salford

History

The stop was originally planned to be called Lostock Parkway and was intended to be located just south of its eventually location, on the disused Trafford Park Railway freight line by Park Way (A5081) in Lostock.[4] During the construction period the stop was known as EventCity, but was renamed before the line opened by Transport for Greater Manchester in 2020 as the venue known as EventCity had already announced plans to move elsewhere.[5]

Services

From this stop a service runs generally every 12 minutes towards Cornbrook and towards the Trafford Centre.

Preceding station		Manchester Metrolink		Following station
Intu Trafford Centre towards intu Trafford Centre		Trafford Centre - Cornbrook Line		Parkway towards Cornbrook
	Planned extensions
Intu Trafford Centre towards Port Salford		Trafford Centre Line		Parkway towards Crumpsall

References

1. "Pages - EventCity/Trafford Centre". tfgm.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
2. "Metrolink's Trafford Park £350m tramline opening date revealed". BBC. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
3. "Metrolink's Trafford Park line to open as planned at weekend". Place North West. 20 March 2020.
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20121115073720/http://www.metrolink.co.uk/futuremetrolink/Documents/network-map-with-new-extensions.pdf
5. "Consultation on plans for EventCity relocation - Trafford City". 19 July 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.