Manchester Metrolink City Zone

The City Zone on the Manchester Metrolink, light rail network, is the part of the system where trams run through the streets of Manchester city centre. The City Zone forms the heart of the system where all of the other lines converge. The Zone was first opened in 1992, with a three-way street-running line across the city centre. The Second City Crossing (2CC), constructed to ease congestion on the original route, opened in 2017.

As of 2015, there are nine Metrolink stops in the City Zone, these are:

Two stations used to serve the city centre but have been closed:

Metrolink tickets allowing travel to a City Zone stop also allow for travel within the City Zone.

Passengers who travel on rail services from the Greater Manchester area into one of the five railway stations of the Manchester station group; (Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Victoria, Deansgate and Salford Central) Will be issued with a ticket stating the destination as Manchester CTLZ as opposed to Manchester Picc or Manchester Vic. This allows visitors to use Metrolink trams between stops in the City Zone for free on the presentation of a Manchester CTLZ rail ticket. The Freedom of the City scheme was introduced in 2005 by GMPTE, now Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).

National visitors from outside Greater Manchester with MANCHESTER STNS as the destination are not permitted free use of Metrolink, as it is a locally funded transport service by TfGM, and receives no national government subsidy.

Historically there were extensive tram lines in Manchester city centre as part of the first generation tram system; however, these were all abandoned by 1949.

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