Market Street Manchester Metrolink 1990s - 2019 Contrasts

Trams at Manchester Metrolink's Market Street tram stop in 1992, 2012 and 2019 - plus some views showing the tram stop before it opened.

[@Roblilley999]

Having not been to Manchester since 2003, I still remember the old platforms, looks totally different now

[@peteradaniel]

1983 born Mancunian. So strange seeing my city exactly how it was when I was growing up. So much rubbish on the ground. We were so poor. Also so much better now they’ve pedestrianised this Street. And the old GM buses. Devastated when the council sold them off.

[@stateofflux7453]

Alex Daniel I had the same observation about the rubbish on the ground. Didn't look great.

[@extrude22]

To be fair to the council it was government policy to sell off the buses.

[@buses7675]

Very interesting good view - I didn't know they'd changed that to a single island platform!

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

Yes, they closed the High Street stop which was just around the corner and rebuilt Market Street as a fully high-level island platform. But it does cut the road in half (lengthways) in a way that the multi-level platforms did not.

[@toddhunter3137]

Great video. Interesting to see how Market Street used look. I moved to Manchester in 2001 so only ever seen it pedestrianized with the Island platform.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

I live elsewhere in the country and until I saw the building works installing the tramway in 1990 I had never even visited Market Street - which explains why there are no views showing it as it was in the days before Metrolink

[@Andrewjg_89]

There is a extension of the Trafford Park Line to Port Salford which is under construction that are due to be completed next year. That will allow the Metrolink M5000 trams to branch off the existing Eccles Line at Pomona tram stop and to travel on the new Trafford Park Line to Port Salford. And there are plans to extend the Metrolink to Stockport which new tram-trains could be built for the Stockport extension. Just like the Sheffield Supertram Rotherham extension that Class 399 Tram-train vehicles are operated on.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

Thanks. I remember travelling on tram-trains in the 1970's in Karlsruhe, Germany. It is a good concept, proven very successful.

[@Mikeb1001]

EssexLad 8919 Port Salford? Doesn’t exist. What you actually mean is the new Trafford Park line to the Trafford Centre is being built as a branch off the Eccles line. It is actually complete, they’ve just started running trams for commissioning

[@Andrewjg_89]

@@Mikeb1001 I think you are right.

[@VimyScout]

Hyde Road 216..lol. Still remember how bad it looked down there after the bomb. Oh Manchester is wonderful 👍

[@anindrapratama]

The city of Bogor have plans to build a Tramway to connect the city to the Suburban "Light" Metro and the trains are second-hand from Utrecht Manchester's tram gave me a bit of impression

[@gymnasiast90]

The old Utrecht trams, really? Those trams are almost 40 years old!

[@stevedixon8567]

all that double denim.... those were the days

[@colinvespa4709]

and shell suits ! lol

[@theblah12]

A lot of bright blue denim in those 90’s shots.

[@katiegilbey9007]

Nice video

[@malcolmgeorge1180]

I liked the 90s tram

[@Skate771parts]

Could be fun if you accidentally filmed Liam Gallagher wandering around in the 90's

[@frankn89]

90s fashion was so much more interesting. Brighter colours and more individuality. It seems people dress a lot more similarly to one another these days, and often in darker colours.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

I'm not a fashion guru but I understand that when the economy is booming people dress more brightly / outlandishly whereas at times of economic hardship people dress more dourly and in ways that do not stand out so much.

[@aidans9010]

Couldn't agree more, I still wear double denim and bright colours... Have to say, you get some looks of disapproval and sometimes laughter from the rest of the sheeps. Weird how things change and, it's rather sad that people are obviously afraid to be different/themselves these days.

[@samulihirsi]

seems like everything much better now with shelter and all

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

yes, much better than in 2012, a longer shelter. I liked the multi-level profiled platforms from the 1990, but it seems that many people did not like them

[@Mikeb1001]

Nope, the 90s days were better, for one I miss the sound the original ticket machines made when you pressed a button and 2, I miss the sounds the old trams made. Also the old trams were way more comfortable and had loads more seats

[@railnut21]

The profiled platforms were useful but as traffic rose especially after the 90's big bomb things needed to be changed to be able to accommodate numbers. Mosley street whilst sorely missed became redundant in 1998 really when they changed Market Street to its current form

[@stu797]

When I travel through Manchester on the Metro I treat it like a theme park Walking Dead ride.

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

9:11 I can’t be seen but I was in then middle on the tram at the time of this video hi!

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

Lol for questions I was on the other side more closer to the south side of the tram

[@Mikeb1001]

Bring back the T68’s!

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

I think a few exist, perhaps one is at the Heaton Park musuem tramway.

[@Mikeb1001]

citytransportinfo 1000 is at the Museum of Transport which is the original prototype so never ran in service and a handful are still at the Old Trafford depot

[@madzlogtv1484]

OMG I AM IN THE VIDEO

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

you have become famous ! :-) if you wish I could send you a still image from the part if the video with you in it.

[@karlmax920]

@@CitytransportInfoplus I am not famous and that's a bit doggy. You don't what i look like so how would you send me an image of me.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

You would need to tell me the timing and what you look like for me to find you - I do not have surveillance technology to follow people (but in some countries the police can do this - EG: China)

[@karlmax920]

@@CitytransportInfoplus Who are you in specific?

[@karlmax920]

@@CitytransportInfoplus And why would I want a picture of myself from this video if I can take one myself?

[@ging93]

Toot!

[@H965]

Late 20th century to early 21st century

[@ExplodingPiggy]

Now if only there was a way to clear all those old buildings and make way for new ones.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

some people like older buildings, as often they have more character whereas newer buildings are more glitzy but less functional

[@ExplodingPiggy]

I was making a joke about the IRA bomb, since this is from the 90's 🤣

[@ExplodingPiggy]

@Ross Bourne yes I lived there for 10 years, it was a joke....that is all 🙄

[@EuropeanTrainDriver]

Nice video