Ashton Moss tram stop

Not to be confused with Ashton Moss railway station.

Ashton Moss is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line, built as part of Phase 3b of the Manchester Metrolink.

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

The station opened on 9 October 2013, ahead of the originally-publicised schedule of the winter of 2013–14. The stop has an island platform, and is located on Lord Sheldon Way near the Ashton Moss leisure complex and Snipe Retail Park on Ashton New Road. The station is served by a 200 space Park + Ride car park, with electric vehicle parking facilities.

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

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 Droylsden Stalybridge Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton West Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton Moss Metrolink | L&NWR Ashton Park Parade Audenshaw Dukinfield and Ashton Droylsden Dukinfield Central Cemetery Road Metrolink to Manchester Piccadilly Guide Bridge Hooley Hill 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.

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)

External links

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