Ashton West tram stop

Ashton West
Metrolink station
Ashton West tram stop, on day of opening.
General information
Location	Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside England
Coordinates	53°29′25″N 2°06′35″W / 53.49026°N 2.10972°W / 53.49026; -2.10972
Grid reference	SJ928993
Line(s)	East Manchester Line
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	9 October 2013[1]
Original company	Metrolink
Route map Legend 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) This diagram: view talk edit
Location

Ashton West is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line (EML) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. It was built as part of Phase 3b of the Metrolink's expansion, and is located on Lord Sheldon Way near the Ashton Moss leisure complex, in western Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, England.^[2] The stop opened on 9 October 2013,^[1] ahead of the originally-publicised schedule of the winter of 2013–14.^[3] The stop primarily serves the aforementioned leisure and retail complex, and is also the closest to the Tameside Stadium, home of Curzon Ashton F.C.

The stop is one of the least used on the Metrolink network.^[4]

v t e Railway lines in Tameside
Legend
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 are every 12 minutes on all routes.

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

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  A M5000 tram having just left Ashton West
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  Ashton West tram station at twilight, in the direction of Ashton-under-Lyne in October 2016.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ashton West Metrolink station.

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

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Ashton Moss towards Eccles		Eccles–Ashton (peak only)		Ashton-under-Lyne Terminus
Ashton Moss towards MediaCityUK		MediaCityUK – Ashton-under-Lyne Line