Date: 27/09/2011

Congestion could be eased at Manchester Piccadilly and other stations if trams were allowed to run on rail lines, a minister says. A report by transport minister Norman Baker says running so-called ‘tram-trains’ trams on railway tracks could also cut costs. No firm plans are yet in place, but the region will be monitoring the results of a proposed pilot scheme in Sheffield.

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A Sheffield 'Supertram' heads North along the tracks above the retaining wall to the East of Sheffield station on 24 April 2011.
Location: Sheffield Station / Sheffield Hallam University [SYPTE]
Company: South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
24/04/2011 Ken Strachan

Metrolink tram 1012, on an Altrincham - Piccadilly service, drops off the Cheshire Lines formation onto the street-running section alongside the G-Mex/Manchester Central trainshed and undercroft.
Location: Manchester Central
Company: Cheshire Lines Committee (Great Northern Railway, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and Midland Railway)
07/07/2008 Mark Bartlett

View over Manchester Central from the Beetham Tower on 28 September 2009. Closed to rail traffic in 1969 the old CLC station was subsequently refurbished and relaunched as the G-Mex Conference and Exhibition Centre in 1986 before regaining its original identity in 2008. The Midland Hotel stands opposite the far end of the building and a Metrolink tram can be seen running past on the right.
Location: Manchester Central
Company: Cheshire Lines Committee (Great Northern Railway, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and Midland Railway)
28/09/2009 Ian Dinmore