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]

Piccadilly Gardens
Metrolink station
Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in February 2018
General information
Location	Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester England
Coordinates	53.4803°N 2.2370°W / 53.4803; -2.2370
Grid reference	SJ843982
Line(s)	City Centre
Platforms	2 (island)
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	27 April 1992
Original company	Metrolink
Route map Legend 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 & The Trafford Centre Trafford Bar to Altrincham to East Didsbury & Manchester Airport This diagram: view talk edit
Location

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

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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Piccadilly Gardens Metrolink station.

• Piccadilly Gardens Stop Information
• Metrolink City Centre area map

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

v t e Manchester railways
Legend
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