Fact Sheet: The Station
- The Station was officially opened on Friday 30 January 2004 by the Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Manchester Airport’s £60 million ground transport interchange enables seamless travel into the heart of the airport by bus, coach, train and tram
- The complex is built around the airport’s railway station, which opened in 1993 at a cost of £28 million
- There are shops and catering outlets and an 83,000 sq ft, six-storey office block, 4M
- It is the first ground transport interchange of its kind to be built in the UK and supports Government policy to improve public transport
- In 2003, over 19 million people travelled through Manchester Airport and around 18,000 people work at the airport
- By 2015 annual passenger numbers at the airport are expected to reach 40 million. Our target is for 40% of all passenger and airport worker journeys to be made on public transport
- In October 2002 4M was awarded a rating of ‘excellent’ under the BREEAM scheme (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method)
- The £60 million project was part funded by a 3.877 million Euro grant from the European Union Trans-European Network Schemes programme – a fund set up to promote integrated transport projects
- Further funding, worth £3.45 million, was provided from the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities’ Transport Infrastructure Fund to cover the cost of the sophisticated interactive passenger information system
- Main project partners were: Manchester Airport, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, the Strategic Rail Authority, Network Rail and First North Western (representing the train operators)