Metrolink update (9:15pm): Full service expected to resume for morning peak

Town Centre Metrolink stop

Metrolink customers are advised that a full service is expected to resume right across the tram network from the start of services tomorrow morning (Tuesday 26 April).

Normal service will be resumed, with a six minute frequency in place for the morning commute.

Early bird services to Manchester Airport will also be running from 03:00.

Following a technical issue affecting services this afternoon, which meant that the network control room staff were unable to monitor or effectively communicate with trams to control their movements, a 12 minute service has already been restored across the network.

Transport for Greater Manchester’s Metrolink Director, Peter Cushing, said: “I’d like to thank our customers for their patience today and apologise to anyone affected by the network-wide issues.

“We worked extremely hard to communicate the disruption to passengers, getting messages out through our drivers, staff on the ground at stops, social and mainstream media and I’d like to thank bus and rail operators for their support today.

“This disruption was unprecedented and having now identified the fault we’ll be working closely with the operator MRDL and the systems supplier to review what has happened and learn any lessons for the future.”