Pomona tram stop

Pomona is a tram stop located just east of the junction of the Eccles Line and Trafford Park Line of Greater Manchester's light rail system, known as Metrolink . It opened to passengers on 6 December 1999, as part of Phase 2 of the network's expansion, at Pomona Docks in Old Trafford.

Pomona
Metrolink
Two Bombardier M5000 trams at Pomona in November 2018
Pomona Location of Pomona in Greater Manchester
Location
Place	Pomona Docks
Local authority	Trafford
Coordinates	53.4652°N 2.2781°W
Grid reference	SJ816965
Platforms	2 (island)
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone	2
Present status	In operation
Operations
Original operator	Manchester Metrolink
History
Opened	6 December 1999
Eccles Line to Ashton-under-Lyne Deansgate-Castlefield ( Deansgate) Bridgewater Canal Cornbrook ( Zone 1 Zone 2 boundary) to Altrincham, East Didsbury & Manchester Airport Bridgewater Canal Pomona Trafford Park Line to The Trafford Centre Manchester Ship Canal Exchange Quay Salford Quays Anchorage Harbour City MediaCityUK bridge to Imperial War Museum Broadway Langworthy Weaste Ladywell Eccles ( Eccles)

It was the least-used stop on the Metrolink network in 2018.[1] However, it was always designed to support development as an interchange station between the Eccles Line and the Trafford Park Line which opened in March 2020.

Pomona Docks

Pomona tram stop is at the edge of the now disused Pomona Docks owned by the Peel Group.

Trafford Park Line extension

In 2016, Metrolink began construction of the Trafford Park Line, which would stem off the existing line at Pomona station.[2] Supporting concrete blocks for the track had been in place since the station opened in 1999, with the line opening on 22 March 2020.

A bridge was built to connect the new alignment on the south of the Manchester Ship Canal to the existing route. The line proceeds straight from the station, in-between the Manchester Ship Canal and Bridgewater Canal. It then begins a gradual descent onto the left bank of the ship canal and runs parallel to it.

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  Track blocks at Pomona were in place from 1999 for the provisional Trafford Park Extension.
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  The bridge gradually descends between the Manchester Ship Canal and the Bridgewater Canal.
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  The bridge connects to the existing line immediately west of the platform.
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  The track will run parallel to the Manchester Ship Canal.

Services

Ground view of Pomona station

A Metrolink tram crossing the Manchester Ship Canal at Pomona

Service pattern

• 6 minute service to Ashton-under-Lyne (peak).
• 12 minute service to Ashton-under-Lyne (off-peak).
• 12 minute service to Cornbrook
• 12 minute service to Eccles (via MediaCityUK at offpeak times).
• 12 minute service to MediaCityUK (peak).
• 12 minute service to the Trafford Centre

Connecting bus routes

Pomona station is not served directly by any bus service, but several services stop on Chester Road.[3]

References

1. "Transport Statistics Greater Manchester 2017 Public Transport Section". TfGM. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
2. "Go ahead given for Trafford Park Metrolink line in Manchester". www.intelligenttransport.com. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
3. "Transport for Greater Manchester - Journey Planning - Network Maps". tfgm.com. Transport for Greater Manchester. Retrieved 19 September 2015.

External links

• Pomona Stop Information
• Pomona area map
• Pomona Redevelopment
• Metrolink future network

Manchester railways
City Centre and North Past, present and future
Manchester Metrolink Main line services to Rochdale to Oldham Moston Newton Heath to Bury Newton Heath and Moston Bowker Vale to Tameside Crumpsall Clayton Bridge Abraham Moss Park Woodlands Road to Tameside Queens Road Central Park Monsall Edge Lane Miles Platting Clayton Hall Velopark Oldham Road Holt Town Manchester Victoria Etihad Campus Exchange New Islington to Ordsall Chord and to Salford Ardwick Shudehill Ashburys High Street │ Manchester Piccadilly Mayfield Market Street │ Piccadilly Gardens to South Manchester Exchange Square Gorton Mosley Street Manchester Oxford Road St Peter's Square to Belle Vue Manchester Central │ Deansgate- Castlefield Deansgate Liverpool Road to Hyde Road to Ordsall Chord and to Salford to Tameside Cornbrook Cornbrook Pomona to Eccles Trafford Bar to Trafford to Trafford Firswood to Altrincham to Chorlton