Piccadilly_Gardens_tram_stop

Piccadilly Gardens tram stop

Piccadilly Gardens tram stop

Manchester Metrolink tram stop

Not to be confused with Manchester Piccadilly station.

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]

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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]

History

In 1931, a new bus station was opened on Parker Street on the former site of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, providing a central transport interchange for bus passengers.[3] In 1945, adjacent site was landscaped as an ornamental sunken garden and named Piccadilly Gardens.[4]

In 1991, construction work began on a new light rail transport network, Manchester Metrolink. New tram lines were laid along the southern and western sides of Piccadilly Gardens, and a new tram stop constructed alongside the bus station, providing an inter-modal exchange between tram and bus.[5]

Services

Services run every twelve minutes on each route at most operating times.

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  • Piccadilly Gardens bus station in 1976
  • The future site of Piccadilly Gardens tram stop, photographed in 1989
  • Construction of the Manchester Metrolink lines at Piccadilly Gardens in 1991
  • Construction of Piccadilly Gardens Metrolink platforms in 1991
  • Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in December 2013.
  • An older T-68 tram at Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in 2005.
  • Inter-modal exchange at the bus station
  • Map of Manchester City Centre Metrolink stops

References

  1. [1]
    TfGM (2013). "Services Map" (PDF). metrolink.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. [2]
    "Transport Statistics Greater Manchester 2017 Public Transport Section". TfGM. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  3. [3]
    A Hundred Years of Road Passenger Transport in Manchester. 1935. p. 30. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  4. [4]
    Glinert, Ed (24 April 2008). The Manchester Compendium: A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-102930-6. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  5. [5]
    Senior, John A.; Ogden, Eric (1992). Metrolink. Transport Publishing. ISBN 978-0-86317-155-0.
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