The Modern City · event 7 of 12

1992

Metrolink. Britain’s first modern street-running light rail system opens between Bury and Altrincham through the city centre. It now runs to around a hundred stops and is the backbone of getting around.

The The Modern City era

  1. 1917
  2. 1940
  3. 1948
  4. 1958
  5. 1976
  6. 1982
  7. 1992
  8. 1996
  9. 2002
  10. 2017
  11. 2023
  12. 2025

See the full timeline or read the history of Manchester.