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Transport in Manchester

Manchester has very developed transportation and is a transportation hub in the UK. It only takes 3 hours and an hour and a half to go to London and Birmingham by train, and it only takes 3 and a half hours to go to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Manchester International Airport is one of the major airports in the UK, with hundreds of flights every day to continental Europe and other local cities. Manchester has a variety of modern transportation and communication tools, and it maintains close connections with other parts of the world at all times. The highways and railways extending in all directions provide good conditions for the development of industry and commerce. More than 12.5 million passengers fly from here to 165 destinations around the world every year.

Bus Tours

Manchester is compact and ideal for exploring on foot. But you might as well take the free bus and explore the city center. However, you must first understand the service scope and charging standards of the public transportation system, because it is so complicated that you can hardly imagine it. City buses run around Piccadilly Gardens and trains run around the inner city; there are stations at Victoria, Salford, Deansgate, Oxford Street and Piccadilly Gardens. Trams also run across the city, connecting Victoria, Piccadilly and Castlefield, passing through Mosley Street before heading to the suburbs of Altrincham and Bury. Walking out of Piccadilly Station, there are free buses to the city, Lines 1 and 3.

All bus starting points are concentrated in Piccadilly Garden in the city center. If you take the free bus and circle the city for a week, you won’t miss Albert Square, named after Queen Victoria’s husband, St. Peter’s Square with the “Round Library”, the former Free Exchange (now a hotel ), the former Central Railway Station (now the G-Mex Exhibition and Event Center), as well as the City Hall, Manchester Church, etc. Many of them are classic Victorian neo-Gothic architectural styles.

Another interesting bus tour is the Manchester Rock Tour, which can be booked from the tourist center in St Peter's Square. In such a drive, you can go from the "Happy Ministry" band in the 1970s, the "Smiths", "New Order", "Stone Roses" and "Happy Mondays" in the 1980s, all the way through the "Taipei" and "Happy Mondays" in the 1990s. The growth process of the band "Oasis". And Manchester has been writing world-class pop music history. Manchester holds an important place in railway history. The Liverpool-Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, was the birthplace of passenger rail transport. In the past 50 years, the city center was almost surrounded by a dozen railway stations, but now there are only two main mainline railway stations in the city center - Victoria Station and Piccadilly Station, connecting Manchester with most of the UK. There are also several small stations in the city center: Oxford Road Station, Deanskirch Station and Shalford Central Station. Although Manchester does not have an underground railway system, there is still a light rail system connecting various districts in the city and surrounding the city center of Manchester.

Urban railways have been popular on the streets of Manchester for a few years. Its fares are about the same as those of buses, and they often lead to the city center and important areas around the city. For example, if you want to get off the train, If you go shopping at ARNDALE CENTRE, you don’t have to walk far. You can get there directly by taking METRO LINK from the train station, and the fare is only 30 pence.

The Birmingham-Manchester high-speed railway project No. 2 approved by the British government in 2012 is included in the plan and will connect the London-Birmingham high-speed railway and the Birmingham-Leeds high-speed railway to form the British high-speed railway network. One legacy of the Industrial Revolution was the vast network of canals: the Manchester-Bolton-Banley Canal, the Notchdale Canal, and the Manchester Canal, all leading to the sea. Today, most canals are used for recreational purposes. The Manchester area also has many artificial lakes and rivers surrounding the city.