Cornbrook
General information
Location	Cornbrook,Manchester England
Coordinates	53°28′12″N2°16′03″W / 53.4700°N 2.2675°W /53.4700; -2.2675
Grid reference	SJ823971
System	Metrolink station
Line	Altrincham Line
Platforms	2 (island)
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	1/2
History
Original company	Manchester Metrolink
Key dates
6 December 1999	Opened (for interchange only)
3 September 2005	Opened (for entry and exit)
Route map Legend toBury toOldham &Rochdale Zone 1 Victoria Shudehill Exchange Square Market Street Piccadilly Gardens St Peter's Square Piccadilly Deansgate-Castlefield ( Deansgate) New Islington Cornbrook to Ashton- under-Lyne stop in bothZone 1 and 2   to MediaCityUK,Eccles &The Trafford Centre Trafford Bar toAltrincham to East Didsbury &Manchester Airport This diagram: view talk edit
Location

Cornbrook tram stop is atram stop onGreater Manchester's light railMetrolink system in the Cornbrook area ofManchester, England. It is aninterchange station, allowing passenger transfer between the network'sAltrincham,Eccles,Airport,Trafford Park andSouth Manchester lines. The station opened on 6 December 1999 for interchange (line transfers) only and allowed street-level entry and exit to the public from 3 September 2005. It takes its name from Cornbrook Road, between theA56 andPomona Docks on theManchester Ship Canal, and was built on what was aCheshire Lines Committee route toManchester Central railway station. The stop is one of the most used on the Metrolink network.^[1]

The stop is named after the now culverted Corn Brook, a tributary of theRiver Irwell which runs through the area.^[2]

The stop opened with the Eccles extension on 6 December 1999 with two through platforms and a Manchester facing bay platform for terminating trams. Cornbrook was unique when opened as there was no access to/from the street, the stop being used for transfer betweenBury-Altrincham line trams andEccles Line trams. This was due to security issues and a low estimated usage.

Because of a rise in the local population due to new residential developments, particularly on Ellesmere Street, the stop's emergency exit staircase to the street was converted into a full passenger entrance/exit, which opened on 3 September 2005. There are plans to relocate the entrance as part of the "Cornbrook Hub" redevelopment.^[3]

During August 2009, the track layout was extensively remodelled to accommodate the MediaCityUK tram service and as a result the track was removed from the bay platform reducing the number of platforms to 2. However the infrastructure remains and the platform could be reinstated if the need arises.

This is the second station in this locality asCornbrook railway station was opened to serve Pomona Gardens on the south side of Cornbrook Road on 1 June 1856 by theManchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR), which runs parallel to the Metrolink at this point. The first station closed on 31 May 1865.

Services run every 12 minutes on all routes. Some routes (as indicated) only operate duringpeak times.

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Trafford Bar towardsEast Didsbury		East Didsbury–Shaw (peak only)		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsShaw and Crompton
		East Didsbury–Rochdale		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsRochdale Town Centre
Trafford Bar towardsManchester Airport		Manchester Airport–Victoria		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsVictoria
Trafford Bar towardsAltrincham		Altrincham–Bury (peak only)		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsBury
		Altrincham–Piccadilly		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsPiccadilly
		Altrincham–Etihad Campus (evenings and Sundays only)		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsEtihad Campus
Pomona towardsEccles		Eccles–Ashton (peak only)		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsAshton-under-Lyne
		Eccles–Ashton via MediaCityUK (off-peak only)
Pomona towardsMediaCityUK		MediaCityUK–Etihad Campus (peak only)		Deansgate-Castlefield towardsEtihad Campus
Pomona towardsThe Trafford Centre		The Trafford Centre–Deansgate		Deansgate-Castlefield Terminus

Cornbrook station is served by bus services on nearby Chester Road.Stagecoach Manchester service 255 runs to Partington viaStretford andUrmston. Services run to Manchester, terminating atPiccadilly Gardens.^[4]

• 
  ABombardier M5000 at Cornbrook tram stop in 2012.
• 
  The entrance to Cornbrook station on Cornbrook Road.
• 
  Cornbrook tram stop in January 2017.

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013).Chester Northgate to Manchester. Middleton Press. fig. 105.ISBN 9781908174512.OCLC 892704846.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toCornbrook Metrolink station.

• Cornbrook Stop Information
• Cornbrook area map

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