Pomona
Metrolink station
General information
Location	Pomona Docks, Trafford England
Coordinates	53°27′55″N 2°16′41″W / 53.46519°N 2.27807°W / 53.46519; -2.27807
Grid reference	SJ816965
Line(s)	Eccles Line Trafford Park Line
Platforms	2 (island)
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	2
History
Original company	Manchester Metrolink
Key dates
6 December 1999	Opened
22 March 2020	Trafford Park branch opened
Route map Legend to Ashton-under-Lyne Deansgate-Castlefield ( Deansgate) Bridgewater Canal Cornbrook ( Zone 1 Zone 2 boundary) to Altrincham, East Didsbury & Manchester Airport Bridgewater Canal Pomona Trafford Park Line to The Trafford Centre Manchester Ship Canal Exchange Quay Salford Quays Anchorage Harbour City MediaCityUK bridge to Imperial War Museum Broadway Langworthy Weaste Ladywell Eccles ( Eccles) This diagram: view talk edit
Location

Pomona is a tram stop located just east of the junction of the Eccles Line and Trafford Park Line of Greater Manchester's light rail system, known as Metrolink. It opened to passengers on 6 December 1999, as part of Phase 2 of the network's expansion, at Pomona Docks in Old Trafford.

It was the least-used stop on the Metrolink network in 2018.^[1] However, it was always designed to support development as an interchange station between the Eccles Line and the Trafford Park Line which opened in March 2020.

Pomona Docks

Pomona tram stop is at the edge of the now disused Pomona Docks owned by the Peel Group.

Trafford Park Line extension

In 2016, Metrolink began construction of the Trafford Park Line, which would stem off the existing line at Pomona station.^[2] Supporting concrete blocks for the track had been in place since the station opened in 1999, with the line opening on 22 March 2020.

A bridge was built to connect the new alignment on the south of the Manchester Ship Canal to the existing route. The line proceeds straight from the station, in-between the Manchester Ship Canal and Bridgewater Canal. It then begins a gradual descent onto the left bank of the ship canal and runs parallel to it.

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  Track blocks at Pomona were in place from 1999 for the provisional Trafford Park Extension.
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  The bridge gradually descends between the Manchester Ship Canal and the Bridgewater Canal.
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  The bridge connects to the existing line immediately west of the platform.
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  The track will run parallel to the Manchester Ship Canal.

Services

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Legend
City Centre and North Past, present and future
Manchester Metrolink Main line services to Rochdale to Oldham Moston Newton Heath to Bury Newton Heath and Moston Bowker Vale to Tameside Crumpsall Clayton Bridge Abraham Moss Park Woodlands Road to Tameside Queens Road Central Park Monsall Edge Lane Miles Platting Clayton Hall Velopark Oldham Road Holt Town Manchester Victoria Etihad Campus Exchange New Islington to Ordsall Chord and to Salford Ardwick Shudehill Ashburys High Street │ Manchester Piccadilly Mayfield Market Street │ Piccadilly Gardens to South Manchester Exchange Square Gorton Mosley Street Manchester Oxford Road St Peter's Square to Belle Vue Manchester Central │ Deansgate- Castlefield Deansgate Liverpool Road to Hyde Road to Ordsall Chord and to Salford to Tameside Cornbrook Cornbrook Pomona to Eccles Trafford Bar to Trafford to Trafford Firswood to Altrincham to Chorlton

Service pattern

• 6 minute service to Ashton-under-Lyne (peak).
• 12 minute service to Ashton-under-Lyne (off-peak).
• 12 minute service to Cornbrook
• 12 minute service to Eccles (via MediaCityUK at offpeak times).
• 12 minute service to MediaCityUK (peak).
• 12 minute service to the Trafford Centre

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Exchange Quay towards Eccles		Ashton-under-Lyne–Eccles via MediaCityUK		Cornbrook towards Ashton-under-Lyne
Exchange Quay towards MediaCityUK		MediaCityUK – Ashton-under-Lyne Line
Wharfside towards The Trafford Centre		The Trafford Centre–Cornbrook		Cornbrook Terminus
Planned extensions
Wharfside towards Port Salford		Trafford Centre Line (planned)		Cornbrook towards Crumpsall

Connecting bus routes

Pomona station is not served directly by any bus service, but several services stop on Chester Road.^[3]