Piccadilly Gardens tram stop

Piccadilly Gardens is a tram stop in Zone 1 of Greater Manchester's Metrolink light rail system. It is located beside Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre, and serves both as a transport hub (by integrating with the adjacent Manchester Piccadilly Gardens bus station), and interchange station (which can be used for changing between Metrolink lines).[1]

Not to be confused with Manchester Piccadilly station.

Piccadilly Gardens
Metrolink
Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in February 2018
Piccadilly Gardens Location of Piccadilly Gardens in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Piccadilly Gardens
Local authority	Manchester
Coordinates	53.4803°N 2.2370°W / 53.4803; -2.2370
Grid reference	SJ843982
Platforms	2 (island)
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	1
Present status	In operation
Operations
Original operator	Metrolink
History
Opened	27 April 1992
City Centre to Bury to Rochdale Zone 1 Victoria Shudehill Exchange Square Market Street Piccadilly Gardens St Peter's Square Piccadilly Deansgate-Castlefield ( Deansgate) New Islington Cornbrook to Ashton- under-Lyne stop in both Zone 1 and 2   to MediaCityUK, Eccles & Intu Trafford Centre Trafford Bar to Altrincham to East Didsbury & Manchester Airport

Piccadilly Gardens tram stop opened on 27 April 1992, as part of Metrolink's Phase 1. The station was rebuilt during 2009 with a wider platform and a new canopy, reopening on 2 November 2009. The stop is one of the most used on the Metrolink network.[2]

Services

Service pattern

Services mostly run every 12 minutes on all routes.

At peak times (07:15 – 19:30 Monday to Friday, 09:30 – 18:30 Saturday):

• 5 trams per hour to Altrincham
• 5 trams per hour to Ashton-under-Lyne
• 5 trams per hour to Bury
• 5 trams per hour to Eccles
• 5 trams per hour to Etihad Campus
• 5 trams per hour to MediaCityUK
• 10 trams per hour to Piccadilly

Offpeak (all other times during operational hours):

• 5 trams per hour to Altrincham
• 5 trams per hour to Ashton-under-Lyne
• 5 trams per hour to Bury
• 5 trams per hour to Eccles (via MediaCityUK)
• 10 trams per hour to Piccadilly

Gallery

• 
  Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in December 2013.
• 
  A T-68 tram at Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in 2005.

References

1. TfGM (2013). "Services Map" (PDF). metrolink.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
2. "Transport Statistics Greater Manchester 2017 Public Transport Section". TfGM. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.

External links

• Piccadilly Gardens Stop Information
• Metrolink City Centre area map

Preceding station		Manchester Metrolink		Following station
Market Street towards Bury		Bury – Piccadilly Line		Piccadilly tram stop towards Piccadilly
St Peter's Square towards Altrincham		Altrincham – Piccadilly Line
St Peter's Square towards Eccles		Eccles – Ashton-under-Lyne Line		Piccadilly tram stop towards Ashton-under-Lyne
St Peter's Square towards MediaCityUK		MediaCityUK – Ashton-under-Lyne Line		Piccadilly tram stop towards Ashton-under-Lyne

Manchester railways
City Centre and North Past, present and future
Manchester Metrolink Main line services to Rochdale to Oldham Moston Newton Heath to Bury Newton Heath and Moston Bowker Vale to Tameside Crumpsall Clayton Bridge Abraham Moss Park Woodlands Road to Tameside Queens Road Central Park Monsall Edge Lane Miles Platting Clayton Hall Velopark Oldham Road Holt Town Manchester Victoria Etihad Campus Exchange New Islington to Ordsall Chord and to Salford Ardwick Shudehill Ashburys High Street │ Manchester Piccadilly Mayfield Market Street │ Piccadilly Gardens to South Manchester Exchange Square Gorton Mosley Street Manchester Oxford Road St Peter's Square to Belle Vue Manchester Central │ Deansgate- Castlefield Deansgate Liverpool Road to Hyde Road to Ordsall Chord and to Salford to Tameside Cornbrook Cornbrook Pomona to Eccles Trafford Bar to Trafford to Trafford Firswood to Altrincham to Chorlton