Transport in the United Kingdom
Transport in the United Kingdom is highly facilitated by road, rail, air and water networks. Transport is a devolved matter with each of the countries of the United Kingdom having separate systems under separate governments.
The West Coast Main Line railway, alongside the M1 motorway in Northamptonshire.
London has the busiest city airport system in the world, with Heathrow being the world's second busiest airport by international passenger traffic.
Great Western Railway Hitachi class at London Paddington Station.
A Eurostar service at St Pancras station
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