Piccadilly Gardens
Metrolink station
Piccadilly Gardens tram stop in February 2018
General information
Location	Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester England
Coordinates	53°28′49″N 2°14′13″W / 53.4803°N 2.2370°W / 53.4803; -2.2370
Grid reference	SJ843982
Line(s)	City Centre
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 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 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 both as a transport hub (by integrating with the adjacent Manchester Piccadilly Gardens bus station), and interchange station (which can be used for changing between Metrolink lines).^[1]

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

Service pattern

Services mostly run every 12 minutes on all routes.

At peak times (07:15 – 19:30 Monday to Friday, 09:30 – 18:30 Saturday):

• 5 trams per hour to Altrincham
• 5 trams per hour to Ashton-under-Lyne
• 5 trams per hour to Bury
• 5 trams per hour to Eccles
• 5 trams per hour to Etihad Campus
• 5 trams per hour to MediaCityUK
• 10 trams per hour to Piccadilly

Offpeak (all other times during operational hours):

• 5 trams per hour to Altrincham
• 5 trams per hour to Ashton-under-Lyne
• 5 trams per hour to Bury
• 5 trams per hour to Eccles (via MediaCityUK)
• 10 trams per hour to Piccadilly

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