The Bee Network app also allows you to buy new tickets that allow you to use both buses and trams around Manchester. You can pay with either cash or a card, but you can also pay for a week's travel card (which you can upload to an igo card).
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What happens if you get on a tram in Manchester without paying? If you don't have a valid paper or mobile app ticket, or you don't touch-in successfully with a smart card, contactless card or contactless device you may be charged a penalty fare of up to £120.
Valid on all rail services within the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) area and also beyond TfGM boundary to Disley and New Mills Central / New Mills Newtown. Can also be used on Metrolink trams but only in the 'City Zone', not the wider tram network.
You can't pay for your ticket on the tram, you must pay for your ticket BEFORE getting on the tram. If you buy a physical ticket, you must have this ticket on you throughout your whole journey, you must not lose it! If you have your ticket on your phone, make sure that your phone is fully charged.
Every time you touch-in, you need to touch-out at your destination stop, to complete that journey. If you fail to touch-out at your destination stop, with the same card or device, we won't know what journey(s) you made: your journey will be incomplete (you have up to 2 hours to complete a single journey)
Missed Tap Off CostIf you don't have a default set on your card and you forget to tap off at the end of your trip, you'll be charged the fare to the last stop on the train line or bus route and with your fare type and any applicable loyalty discounts applied.
The Bee Network app also allows you to buy new tickets that allow you to use both buses and trams around Manchester. You can pay with either cash or a card, but you can also pay for a week's travel card (which you can upload to an igo card).
Manchester Metrolink is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles (103 km) of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom.
Free travel around Manchester city centreThe Free bus service in Manchester's city centre connects the main public transport destinations, and all points in between. All buses are wheelchair accessible.
Transport for Greater ManchesterMetrolink head Danny Vaughan highlighted the network's “exemplary safety record” and said that the use of innovative technology to monitor driver attention and over-speeding was “industry-leading”.
At a ticket machineYou can buy different tickets at different machines. Unless otherwise noted, they accept cash (up to $50 bills and coin, returning up to $17.75 in coin change) and credit and debit cards. Gray machines: Buy all ticket types*, pre-valued MetroCards, and UniTickets.