Manchester Metrolink
The whole tram network on one site: a map you can read, the real timetable for all 99 stops, and how long every journey actually takes.
Seven lines, eight corridors — and why the numbers differ
Every line, where it runs and how many stops it serves.
Almost everywhere you look, Metrolink is described as having eight lines. The operator’s own timetable has seven, and both are right: the eight are the physical corridors the trams run on — Altrincham, Bury, Eccles, Airport, East Manchester, South Manchester, Trafford Park and Oldham & Rochdale — while the seven are the colour-coded services you actually board. This site counts services, because that is what you get on at a platform.
Blue Line
27 stops · Bury to Ashton-under-Lyne
Green Line
25 stops · Bury to Altrincham
Navy Line
25 stops · Victoria to Manchester Airport
Pink Line
33 stops · Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury
Purple Line
17 stops · Etihad Campus to Altrincham
Red Line
15 stops · The Trafford Centre to Crumpsall
Yellow Line
16 stops · Piccadilly to MediaCityUK
The map
A schematic diagram of the whole network, drawn from the published data rather than copied: every stop, in the real order, with the real line colours. Free to download as a PDF.
How often the trams really run
The numbers on this site are measured from the operator’s own registered timetable, not copied from anyone — which is why they sometimes disagree with what you read elsewhere. See the full timetable, stop by stop.
Where you can change lines
35 of the 99 stops are served by more than one line. At every one of them you change on the same platform or across it — Metrolink has no interchanges that need a walk between separate stations.
All 99 stops
Every stop on the network, with the lines that call there.
Common questions
Seven colour-coded services — Blue, Green, Navy, Pink, Purple, Red and Yellow — running over eight physical corridors. The “eight lines” you see elsewhere counts the corridors.
Every 15 minutes on each line through the day, and every 7 or 8 minutes where two lines share the same track. It was every 12 minutes until March 2026.
Monday to Thursday the first departure anywhere on the network is 04:58 and the last is 01:24. Friday and Saturday run about an hour later. Each stop page gives its own first and last tram.
No. The Green Line does not operate on Sundays; the Altrincham and Bury corridors it serves are covered by the Purple and Blue Lines instead.
No, and it says so everywhere. This site shows the published timetable, not live running. TfGM does have a live feed, but it needs a key we do not yet hold, so nobody here can tell you where a tram is right now. For live running and disruption, go to the operator.
Tram times on this page come from the Traveline National Dataset (TransXChange, Open Government Licence v3.0); stop names and coordinates from NaPTAN, the Department for Transport stop register. Manchester Metrolink is an independent guide: it is not run by Metrolink or Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and has no connection with either. Check tfgm.com before you travel.