Ashton Moss tram stop

Not to be confused with Ashton Moss railway station.

Ashton Moss
Metrolink station
Ashton Moss stop in May 2019.
General information
Location	Ashton-under-Lyne, Metropolitan Borough of Tameside England
Coordinates	53.48367°N 2.12191°W / 53.48367; -2.12191
Line(s)	East Manchester Line
Platforms	2 (1 island)
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	9 October 2013
Original company	Manchester Metrolink
Route map to Piccadilly Great Ancoats Street (Inner Ring Rd.) 0:25 New Islington 0:23 Holt Town River Medlock 0:22 Etihad Campus Alan Turing Way (Middle Ring Rd.) 0:20 Velopark Ashton Canal 0:17 Clayton Hall 0:14 Edge Lane 0:12 Cemetery Road 0:10 Droylsden 0:07 Audenshaw 0:05 Ashton Moss    M60  (Outer Ring Rd.) 0:02 Ashton West   0:00 Ashton-under-Lyne   ( Ashton-under-Lyne)
Location

Ashton Moss is a tram stop on the Manchester Metrolink's East Manchester Line, and opened on 9 October 2013 as part of Phase 3b of the network's expansion. This is one of the least used stops on the Metrolink network.

The stop is located on Lord Sheldon Way near the Ashton Moss leisure complex and Snipe Retail Park on Ashton New Road. Ashton Moss tram stop is served by a Park + Ride car park, with electric vehicle parking facilities.

A short lived railway station with the same name existed in the area, and was open from 1861 to 1862.

History

Ashton Moss railway station opened on 26 August 1861 with only two services per day in each direction (one on Sundays) and served a small area to the south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne town centre. It closed on 1 June 1862, and reasons for closure are unknown.

The tram stop opened around 500 metres west of the former rail station on 9 October 2013 ahead of the originally-publicised schedule of winter 2013–14 adjacent to Lord Sheldon Way, one of the main roads running into Ashton town centre.

On 10 December 2021, a teenage boy was injured after being hit by a tram near the stop.

Layout

Ashton Moss tram stop consists of two platforms (island platform). There are two canopies on opposite ends of the stop, each with six seats and three perch seats underneath. Also underneath each one (near to the centre of the platform) is a ticket machine. Passenger help points are located on either end of the platforms.

At the centre, two dot matrix passenger information displays stand serving one side of the platform each, and show estimated arrival times for trams in minutes up to 30 minutes prior (up to three at a time) and number of carriages.

There are two ramps at each end of the platforms, providing step-free access for passengers.

There is a 200-space Park + Ride car park to the north of the stop.

Services

Railway lines in Tameside
Oldham Lines to Oldham Oldham Lines to Saddleworth Mossley Micklehurst Loop Park Bridge Micklehurst Oldham Road Staley and Millbrook Manchester Lines North to Manchester Victoria Stalybridge Droylsden Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton West Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton Moss Ashton Park Parade Audenshaw (1st station) Ashton Moss Audenshaw Dukinfield and Ashton Droylsden Dukinfield Central Cemetery Road Metrolink to Manchester Piccadilly Guide Bridge Audenshaw (2nd station) Fairfield Manchester Lines South to Hyde Road Flowery Field Manchester Lines North to Manchester Piccadilly Hyde North Denton Hyde Central Stockport Lines to Stockport Newton for Hyde to Marple Godley Hattersley Broadbottom Glossop lines to Glossop & Hadfield

Services run every 12 minutes on all routes.

From this stop, services run to Ashton town centre in one direction and to Manchester city centre and Eccles in the other. Services to Eccles operate via MediaCityUK outside of peak times.

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Audenshaw towards Eccles		Eccles–Ashton (peak only)		Ashton West towards Ashton-under-Lyne
		Eccles–Ashton via MediaCityUK (off-peak only)

Connecting transport

Bus

Ashton Moss tram stop is served directly by bus route 7 (Ashton-under-Lyne–Stockport) and 216 (Ashton-under-Lyne–Piccadilly Gardens) further away along Manchester Road/A635.

Train

This tram stop is not connected to any railway stations, but the nearest one is Guide Bridge, just under a mile away.

Accidents and incidents

• 10 December 2021: A teenage boy was hit by a tram at around 17:00 GMT near the stop.

See also

• Ashton Moss railway station
• Ashton-under-Lyne

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090411103135/http://www.lrta.org/Manchester/phase3b.html
• Metrolink stop information
• Ashton Moss area map