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Plans to build a new Metrolink stop and tram line for Manchester Airport are being seriously considered, the Local Democracy Reporting Service has learned.

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is weighing up constructing a Metrolink station for Manchester Airport’s new £1.3bn Terminal 2 building. It would sit on a new ‘Western leg’ of the existing tram line.

“As for tram, there are proposals to extend the tram from its current terminus at Manchester Airport railway station to serve Terminal 2 directly,” TfGM’s latest strategy document released this week said. “With the completion of the Manchester Airport Transformation Programme in 2025, most flights will arrive and depart from this terminal.”

The LDRS now understands TfGM bosses are proposing services stop at

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