The nearest rail station is Eccles, which is half a mile from the hospital. You can check real time information on the NetworkRail next trains to and from Eccles page.  This is advisable because the station is usually unstaffed and the services are infrequent.  See the links below or go to the National Rail Enquiries page. Bear in mind that the Metrolink tram service has a far more frequent service to Eccles than the mainline railway.

If you are heading for Hope from the station go through this walkway over the motorway...

...cross the road and head right parallel to the M602

...then head for the White Horse pub...and walk straight past.

Following the sign...Hope Hospital is further up this road.....

...so it's straight on at these lights into Eccles Old Road towards Pendleton/Salford Precinct...

...and the Eccles Old Road (pedestrian) entrance is on the right hand side of the road near the crossing.

If you are in a car though, you go straight on at this junction and turn next right into Stott Lane.  Visitor car parking is situated in Stott Lane.

By Metrolink (tram)

Metrolink links Eccles with Salford Quays, Manchester City Centre and the rest of the Metrolink tram network.  The line passes along Eccles New Road past the southern end of Stott Lane.   The nearest station to the hospital is Ladywell which is on Eccles New Road, but it's at least 10 minutes' walk from Hope.  As an alternative to walking from Ladywell,  you may prefer to stay on the tram as far as Eccles and catch a bus from the bus station - just a few feet from the tram stop.

Suggestions, comments and grumbles about public transport in Greater Manchester can be sent to the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive via this link. 

If you are travelling to Hope Hospital from Manchester Victoria train station, the easiest way to get to the medical library is to use one of the buses (numbers 10, 67, 68, 100, M10) which depart from the stops at Cross Street, facing the entrance to the Royal Exchange Theatre. Cross Street continues Corporation Street heading southwest. Corporation Street is the main road situated to the left side of Victoria Station.  At the end of your journey alight from the bus at the stop just after the Stott Lane traffic lights and you will find the Postgraduate Centre just inside the Hospital grounds within yards of the bus stop.

If you are travelling from Manchester Piccadilly or Manchester Oxford Road train station, take the free number 1 or 2 bus respectively, and you will be taken to Victoria train station.Once there follow the instructions in the previous paragraph.

Directions from the South:

You have to cross the Manchester Ship Canal at some point.  West of the city centre there are 3 main crossings:

Via Salford Quays/Trafford Road bridge. Recommended route: Over the ship canal at Trafford Road bridge (White City/Salford Quays), up Trafford Road, turn left at Eccles New Road (the big roundabout with the M602).  Stott Lane is on your right 2 miles up Eccles New Road .  

Via Trafford Park/Centenary Bridge.

From A56 Chester Road/Stretford follow signs for Eccles.   This takes you up Park Road. Straight on into Mosley Road at the Kellogg's lights.  Through Trafford Park following signs for 'Newbridge' then over the new bridge (Centenary Bridge, the elevator bridge over the ship Canal).  Then turn left at the roundabout on Salford side of the canal.  Turn right at the next roundabout and you come into Eccles (town centre to your left) with the West One development (site of the former Ladywell hospital) on your right.  Go straight on, then straight on at the next roundabout (the M602) towards the White Horse pub.

Straight on at the junction of Gilda Brook Road/Half Edge Lane.  Hope is 200m or so up Eccles Old Road on your right.

Via Barton swing bridge.  From Trafford Park Asda/Trafford Centre/Urmston/Davyhulme and other points west, you might prefer to use Barton swing bridge and follow signs for Eccles from the Patricroft side.

From the North:

From the A580 East Lancs Road, take the A5145 Lancaster Road as far as you can.  Turn right at its end (see photo below) - the junction with Eccles Old Road (A 576).

From the East and Manchester city centre:

Either:

Up the A57 Regent Road from Castlefield/Chester Road/Trinity Way and then about 1 mile up

Eccles New Road (pictured above - the A57 continued), then turn right into Stott Lane after the Elf petrol station. Or...

Up Chapel Street and the Crescent (A6), past Salford University, turn left off the A6 after the big roundabout at Pendleton (Salford precinct) following signs for Eccles, and then 1 mile along Eccles Old Road (downhill almost all the way from Pendleton so check your brakes work!).

From the West

Follow the A57 Liverpool Road through Eccles (Church Street), past the Lamb Hotel

and turn left at right angles to the tram lines, go over the M602 towards the White Horse (a 1960s Robinson's pub).  Hope Hospital is situated approximately 200m up the main road towards Salford (Pendleton) on the same side of the main road (which soon becomes Eccles Old Road).

See also the Cyclists' Touring Club site.

By Car 

Hope Hospital is situated by the M602 Junction 2 (the Eccles turn off).  This is the A576 Gilda Brook Road/Eccles Old Road between Eccles and Pendleton (Salford Precinct). The M602 links the intersection of the M62 and the M60 with Manchester city centre.  In the photograph below you are heading East towards Manchester, you want the first left turning as you leave the M602 Junction 2. 

See also the Cycle section which has road directions from East, West, North and South.

For comprehensive directions, visit www.multimap.com.

By Air

Hope Hospital is about 10 miles north of Manchester airport.   The airport has a direct rail link with Manchester Piccadilly, from where you can catch the Metrolink via Salford Quays to Eccles or Ladywell stops which are near the hospital.

At Hope Hospital's Eccles Old Road entrance/exit (below) head for the one storey building on the right. (See also the map of the hospital).

This is the Frank Rifkin Postgraduate Centre (below).   The library is inside here so..

go through the double doors, and follow the sign:

Through another set of doors and the library counter is on your left.

Welcome!

See the plan of the library.   See also the map of the hospital.

• GMPTE - Greater Manchester's public transport organisation
• www.multimap.com  for comprehensive road directions (input post code of start and end destination)
• Metrolink
• Next trains to and from Eccles - see whether it's on time before you try and catch it
• Next trains to and from Salford Crescent - see whether it's on time before you try and catch it
• Next trains to and from Manchester Piccadilly - see whether it's on time before you try and catch it
• Next trains to and from Manchester Victoria - see whether it's on time before you try and catch it
• Next trains to and from Manchester Oxford Road - see whether it's on time before you try and catch it
• National Rail Enquiries page - connects your local station with the rest of the UK rail network.
• thetrainline.co.uk
• expedia.co.uk plane tickets, hotels, car hire, journeyplanner
• travelselect.com plane tickets
• National Express coaches
• RAC road routeplanner
• Transport 2000
• sustrans - national cycle network etc.
• Department for Transport
• CTC - Cyclists' Touring Club  get on your bike
• UKPTI - index to UK public transport information links
• setnet - social exclusion and transport discussion list