Metrolink journey planner
Pick two stops, a day and a time, and get the route, the changes and the tram you would actually catch — worked out from the operator’s own timetable, in your browser.
What the times mean
There are two numbers and they answer different questions. Riding time is how long you are on the tram, added up from the registered timetable hop by hop. Door to door starts at the time you said you would be at the stop, so it includes waiting for the first tram and the real wait at any change.
That second number is why the day and the time matter. The same journey at 08:30 on a Tuesday and at 22:30 on a Sunday is the same ride and a very different trip: midweek the trams come every few minutes on the shared stretches, late on a Sunday you may be waiting a quarter of an hour, and on the Green Line you would not be waiting at all, because it does not run on Sundays.
What is still not in there is delay: this is a timetable, not live running. And every interchange on Metrolink is platform-to-platform — there are no changes that need a walk between separate stations — so a “change here” really does mean stepping off one tram and onto the next.
Questions about planning a Metrolink journey
No. 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.
Because the timetable is not the same on all of them. Metrolink publishes separate blocks for Monday to Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the gaps between trams are different in each, and the Green Line does not run on a Sunday at all. Picking the day is what lets the planner show you a real departure time instead of an average.
Whatever you put in the box. It opens on the current time in Manchester — not on your own clock, which matters if you are reading this from another country — and on today’s kind of day.
For the day and time you asked about, yes: there is no later departure in the timetable from that stop. Try an earlier time, or a different day.
It should not. If it does, the direct route is slower once you add the stops up — which happens on the long way round through the city centre.
Yes. The Yellow Line is modelled with both of its patterns, so a journey to Eccles is not routed through a tram that turns at MediaCityUK.
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.