Ashton-under-Lyne is a tram stop serving Ashton-under-Lyne on Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system, it is the terminus of the system's East Manchester Line (EML). It is located beside Ashton-under-Lyne bus station, and a few minutes walk away from Ashton-under-Lyne railway station, forming an Ashton travel hub.[2]

Ashton-under-Lyne
Metrolink station
The stop in February 2018.
General information
Location	Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside England
Coordinates	53.49035°N 2.09806°W / 53.49035; -2.09806
Line(s)	East Manchester Line
Platforms	2 (1 island)
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	9 October 2013[1]
Original company	Manchester Metrolink
Route map Legend to MediaCityUK and Eccles Piccadilly  Great Ancoats Street underpass (Inner Ring) New Islington (final stop in Zone 1) Holt Town (first stop in Zone 2) River Medlock Etihad Campus Alan Turing Way underpass (Middle Ring) Velopark Ashton Canal Clayton Hall Edge Lane ( Zone 2 Zone 3 boundary) Cemetery Road Droylsden Audenshaw Ashton Moss    M60  (Outer Ring Road) Ashton West   Ashton-under-Lyne   ( Ashton-under-Lyne) This diagram: view talk edit
Location

History

The stop was built as part of Phase 3b of the network's expansion, and opened on 9 October 2013,[1] ahead of the originally-publicised schedule of the winter of 2013–14.[3]

In May 2009, a special fund of £1.5 billion was agreed for 15 transport schemes in Greater Manchester. These included a further 2.1-mile (3.4 km) extension to the East Manchester line from Droylsden to Ashton-under-Lyne. Plans for the extension from Droylsden to Ashton-under-Lyne were fully approved by the Department for Transport in March 2010 whereupon MPact-Thales was appointed as the main contractor.[4]

Services

v t e Railway lines in Tameside
Legend
Oldham Lines to Oldham Oldham Lines to Saddleworth Mossley Micklehurst Loop Park Bridge Micklehurst Oldham Road Staley and Millbrook Manchester Lines North to Manchester Victoria Droylsden Stalybridge Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton West Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton Moss Metrolink | L&NWR Ashton Park Parade Audenshaw Dukinfield and Ashton Droylsden Dukinfield Central Cemetery Road Metrolink to Manchester Piccadilly Guide Bridge Hooley Hill Fairfield Manchester Lines South to Hyde Road Flowery Field Manchester Lines North to Manchester Piccadilly Hyde North Denton Hyde Central Stockport Lines to Stockport Newton for Hyde to Marple Godley Hattersley Broadbottom Glossop lines to Glossop & Hadfield

Services are mostly every 12 minutes on all routes.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ashton-under-Lyne Metrolink station.

• Metrolink stop information
• Ashton-under-Lyne area map
• Light Rail Transit Association

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Ashton West towards Eccles		Ashton-under-Lyne–Eccles via MediaCityUK		Terminus
Ashton West towards MediaCityUK		MediaCityUK – Ashton-under-Lyne Line

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