'Train lines' sounds so alien. I go to a railway station to catch a train that traverses the railway, having first bought a railway ticket.

No East Didsbury via Exchange Square 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

Thanks for the informative video. One question - If using a contactless card for a return journey, will the amount eventually charged depend upon the number of zones crossed, or will it always default to the maximum (ie that for Zones 1, 2, 3 and 4?

It's bizarre children need an ID. When we travel on the tram, I will not be carrying ID, including igo as we don't live in GM, for my 7 year old son.

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The graffiti covered bridge was known as Barneys steps/bridge, i took a few photos up there af few years back when it was still a bit wild.

When I use the smart reader before entering the tram and there should be a ticket inspection. Ho can I proof to have used the smart reader?

Great to see a channel dedicated to intricacies of the Metro link. Would be interested in another video about Crossacres and Robinwood Road!

Is my memory playing up or was the route plagued by frequent flooding that caused services to be replaced by bus? Seemed like chancing the Metrolink was easiest way to miss your flight! Has this been fixed now?

Liking the angled shot

Thank you very much for your help! That overcame my fear with confusing ticket purchases!

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good video, but the music is distracting and annoying.

I drove the last scheduled pasenger train around the Oldham loop.

I recall walking across the bridge at 10:40 about 10 years ago....the steps seemed particularly steep....and looking across, as you did, towards what were once extensive sidings. It was at that time unlevelled ground with a forest of vegetation. I found your video fascinating and your enthusiasm was infectious. You've got another subscriber.

Just watched this. Is there like an official timetable of when trams arrive at each stop so you’re not stood around waiting? I’ve got to go from Piccadilly to Altrincham soon and I don’t want to miss the tram accidentally.

They have taken a lot of lines away that’s no good it looks like a mess

I started to watch this but the different styles of music at varying volume levels throughout is a distraction. It really does not need this if the content is of sufficient quality. Just my opinion but I see this in too many videos on KZbin. A lot of successful channels have no music because they just don’t need it. This video is informative and interesting, don’t try so hard to keep viewers attention with the unnecessary music.

Let's face it Manchester Airport is a dump. the toilet facilities are minimal and you have to walk miles to the gate or to passport control upon arrival to the UK. Public transport links are abysmal and I have never seen the moving walkway from the airport to the train station working. The area which seems to have received the most attention from the airport planners is the Duty Free area which you are forced to walk through to reach the departure lounge. A short cut should be provided for people who do not wish to buy overpriced crap or cheap booze and fags.

Don't forget to check the tram timetable so you know you've missed the tram you wanted to get or you've got ages to wait for the next one.

great video - and always nice to see coverage of our wonderful Metrolink. earned yourself a subscriber, lad :)

With regard to speed limit, including TSR, signs, I suspect that, like London Trams, they are calibrated in km/h, not m.p.h. Else, why <50> in a 30 m.p.h. zone?

12:14 That looks like it would be a good place to build a new terminus (HS2/TPR), with a tunnel from the proposed underground HS2 terminus at Piccadilly a bit like Crossrail or the Picc-Vic tunnel project. They should call it "Worm Network".

Sky rock? anywhere it could have come from or have you missed collecting a meteor? Hmm You Tube at its best, srated off watching kittens ended up with trams....The trams do fasincate me though.... goes to look at earlier vids :)

The "connecting collyhurst" text looks like a mid-2000s active travel thing - these pavement stamps were common in a few towns.

Really interesting I worked for British Rail back when the overheads went in and spent many nights up there...interesting, well at least for me during the conversion we would enter the Bury line at Cheetham Hill Junction and not through the tunnel which was the more standard routing. The funny thing is I haven't travelled on Metrolink anywhere on the system yet since it opened... Although in defence I did live in the US for ten years during that period!!!

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My real interest is the history of Manchester’s railways. I found this video fascinating. Thank you. PS. You now have a new subscriber.

Brilliant, informative, and lovely enthusiasm. Just great.

The Cheetham Hill Loop used to have lots of sidings feeding into Man Vic. It always seemed random that if you caught the train to Oldham weather it would go that way or via Miles Platting but i always preferred the Cheetham Hill way as it just seemed faster back in the early 90s.

Great video, enjoyed watching thanks.

So Smedley Viaduct and its junction was always there even when the Bury line was on its own? I do not remember ever seeing it (but I was quite young at the time).

Brilliant video with great videology.

Thank you. That was interesting. I was an occasional visitor to Manchester in the 2010s and saw various bits of Metrolink being brought into service. I had a spare evening one day and got the tram to Rochdale, and was puzzled by the way heavy rail tracks kept appearing and disappearing for the first couple of miles, so thank you for the explanation and diagrams. I was puzzled by the Central Park stop, which I expected to be serving a large public open space rather than an industrial estate!

The large space on the cheetham loop was Red Bank carriage sidings

Most of the Cheetham Hill Loop is as overgrown as the line from Withington to West Didsbury was

There’s still plenty of TSRs

Good clip mate!

Hi. Will someone please tell the people in charge of the "Bee Network" app to download a demonstration of how to work the app. It is so confusing. I have asked for an instruction book on how to use it but did not get one. I have informed Bee Network that I do not understand it as it is so complicated. I have asked other people how it works and they have said that they have uninstalled it but it is too complicated and two others said they have it but can not use it. I can not find anyone who can show me how to use it. Please tell someone to put a KZbin video on showing us how the thing works. Thank You Garry Uk