Edge Lane tram stop

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.

Edge Lane
Metrolink station
Edge Lane tram stop in May 2019.
General information
Location	Droylsden, Tameside England
Coordinates	53.48089°N 2.16525°W / 53.48089; -2.16525
Line(s)	East Manchester Line
Platforms	2 (1 island)
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	2/3
History
Opened	8 February 2013 (preview)[1] 11 February 2013[2][3]
Original company	Metrolink
Route map Legend 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    M60  (Outer Ring Rd.) 0:02 Ashton West   0:00 Ashton-under-Lyne   ( Ashton-under-Lyne) This diagram: view talk edit
Location

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 towards Ashton-under-Lyne
		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]