Edge Lane tram stop

Manchester Metrolink tram stop

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to Piccadilly
Great Ancoats Street (Inner Ring Rd.)
0:25
 New Islington
0:23
 Holt Town
River Medlock
0:22
 Etihad Campus
Alan Turing Way (Middle Ring Rd.)
0:20
 Velopark
Ashton Canal
0:17
 Clayton Hall
0:14
 Edge Lane
0:12
 Cemetery Road
0:10
 Droylsden
0:07
 Audenshaw
0:05
 Ashton Moss  Parking
 M60  (Outer Ring Rd.)
0:02
 Ashton West  Parking
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 Ashton-under-Lyne  Bicycle facilities (National Rail
Ashton-under-Lyne)
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Edge Lane is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line (EML) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. It opened on 11 February 2013,[2][3] after a three-day free trial for local residents.[1] The station was constructed as part of Phase 3a of the Metrolink's expansion, and is located at the junction of Manchester Road and Edge Lane,[4] just inside the border of Droylsden, Tameside, England.

Services

Services are mostly every 12 minutes on all routes.

Preceding station Manchester Metrolink Following station
Clayton Hall
towards Eccles
 Eccles–Ashton (peak only) Cemetery Road
Eccles–Ashton via MediaCityUK (off-peak only)

Connecting bus routes

Edge Lane is directly served by Stagecoach Manchester bus services 216 and 231, which stops next to the station on Manchester Road, with the 216 replicating the tram route between Piccadilly Gardens and Ashton-under-Lyne, while the 231 runs between Manchester and Ashton via Littlemoss and Smallshaw.

Stagecoach/JPT services 217 and 218, which also stops on Manchester Road, run circular routes between Manchester and Mossley serving Droylsden, Dukinfield, Ashton, Tameside General Hospital and Stalybridge.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "It's the final countdown". Transport for Greater Manchester. 1 February 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b Kirby, Dean (4 December 2012). "Opening of Metrolink tram service to Droylsden delayed until February 2013". Archived from the original on 7 December 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Droylsden's new Metrolink line to open in February". Transport for Greater Manchester. 7 December 2012. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  4. ^ "Metrolink - Edge Lane station" (PDF). Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Transport for Greater Manchester - Journey Planning - Network Maps". Transport for Greater Manchester. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2013.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edge Lane Metrolink station.
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  • Edge Lane area map
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