The Trafford Park Line is a light rail line on the Manchester Metrolink network in Greater Manchester, England, running from Pomona to The Trafford Centre. Its name derives from Trafford Park, an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, and the first planned industrial estate in the world. The line opened in March 2020.
A Bombardier M5000 tram approaching the Trafford Centre.
Manchester Metrolink is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles (103 km) of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom. Over the 2022/23 financial year 36 million passenger journeys were made on the system.
Bombardier M5000 at Exchange Quay tram stop in August 2011
Phase 1 construction of the core section of the network near Manchester Piccadilly, 1991
A (now retired) T-68A tram on the Eccles line, opened in 1999–2000 during Phase 2
Phase 3 included the re-opening of the disused railway line through Didsbury