Piccadilly Gardens tram stop

Not to be confused with Manchester Piccadilly station.

Piccadilly Gardens is a tram stop in Zone 1 of Greater Manchester's Metrolink light rail system. It is located beside Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre, and serves as a transport hub (integrated with the adjacent Manchester Piccadilly Gardens bus station) and interchange station (which can be used to change between Metrolink lines).^[1]

Piccadilly Gardens
Metrolink station
Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in February 2018
General information
Location	Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester England
Coordinates	53.4803°N 2.2370°W / 53.4803; -2.2370
Grid reference	SJ843982
Line(s)	Piccadilly spur
Platforms	2 (island)
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	27 April 1992
Original company	Metrolink
Route map Legend to Bury to Oldham & Rochdale Zone 1 Victoria Shudehill Exchange Square Market Street Piccadilly Gardens St Peter's Square Piccadilly Deansgate-Castlefield ( Deansgate) New Islington Cornbrook to Ashton- under-Lyne stop in both Zone 1 and 2   to MediaCityUK, Eccles & The Trafford Centre Trafford Bar to Altrincham to East Didsbury & Manchester Airport This diagram: view talk edit
Location

Piccadilly Gardens tram stop opened on 27 April 1992, as part of Metrolink's Phase 1. The station was rebuilt during 2009 with a wider platform and a new canopy, reopening on 2 November 2009. The stop is one of the most used on the Metrolink network.^[2]

History

In 1931, a new bus station was opened on Parker Street on the former site of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, providing a central transport interchange for bus passengers.^[3] In 1945, adjacent site was landscaped as an ornamental sunken garden and named Piccadilly Gardens.^[4]

In 1991, construction work began on a new light rail transport network, Manchester Metrolink. New tram lines were laid along the southern and western sides of Piccadilly Gardens, and a new tram stop constructed alongside the bus station, providing an inter-modal exchange between tram and bus.^[5]

Services

Services run every twelve minutes on each route at most operating times.

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Market Street towards Bury		Bury–Piccadilly		Piccadilly Terminus
St Peter's Square towards Altrincham		Altrincham–Piccadilly
		Altrincham–Etihad Campus (evenings and Sundays only)		Piccadilly towards Etihad Campus
St Peter's Square towards MediaCityUK		MediaCityUK–Etihad Campus (peak only)
St Peter's Square towards Eccles		Eccles–Ashton (peak only)		Piccadilly towards Ashton-under-Lyne
		Eccles–Ashton via MediaCityUK (off-peak only)

Gallery

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  Piccadilly Gardens bus station in 1976
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  The future site of Piccadilly Gardens tram stop, photographed in 1989
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  Construction of the Manchester Metrolink lines at Piccadilly Gardens in 1991
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  Construction of Piccadilly Gardens Metrolink platforms in 1991
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  Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in December 2013.
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  An older T-68 tram at Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in 2005.
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  Inter-modal exchange at the bus station
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  Map of Manchester City Centre Metrolink stops
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  A M5000 twin unit at Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in December 2024