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Manchester Metrolink
Metrolink (also known as Manchester Metrolink) is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network consists of seven lines which radiate from Manchester city centre to termini at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, East Didsbury, Eccles, Manchester Airport and Rochdale. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP Group. Metrolink has 92 stops along of standard-gauge track making it the largest light rail system in the United Kingdom. In 2014/15, 31.2 million passenger journeys were made on the system.〔
A light rail system for Greater Manchester emerged from the failure of the 1970s "Picc-Vic" scheme to obtain central government funding. Had it been implemented, the Picc-Vic scheme would have connected the Manchester-Bury & Manchester-Crewe railway lines via a city-centre tunnel between Victoria and Piccadilly railway stations. A light-rail scheme was proposed in 1982 as the least expensive rail-based transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area, and gathered political support in the 1980s in the absence of support for the previous Picc-Vic scheme. Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992 after lengthy delays. The originally quoted 6-week conversion programme turned into a 6-month delay. Once working, Metrolink was the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system; the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had survived up to Metrolink's creation.
The system has a mix of designated light railway (segregated from other traffic) and on-street tramway (shared with pedestrians and motor vehicles). It is operated by a fleet of Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s. Expansion of Metrolink has been a key strategy of transport planners in Greater Manchester, who have overseen its development in successive projects, known as Phases 1, 2, 3a, 3b and 2CC.〔 TfGM have endorsed further expansion with proposals for new lines to Stockport, Port Salford, a loop around Wythenshawe, and the addition of tram-train technology.
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