Travelling Arrangements

Manchester is one of the UK's largest and busiest cities, in the North-West of England and linked by road, rail and air to every major destination in the rest of the UK and Ireland.

ALT-C 2009 will be held at University Place on the University of Manchester's Oxford Road campus: map of the campus showing the building (marked as "SCAN", identified as number "1") and location in Manchester.

By train

Manchester is served by two rail ststions: Oxford Road and Piccadilly Station. University Place is very near to both (see campus map above). By rail, it takes just over two hours from London to get to Manchester, three and a half hours from Edinburgh (with a change), approximately three hours from Cardiff and an hour and a half from Birmingham:

National Rail

The Trainline

By air

Manchester International Airport (MAN) handles a huge amount of national and international air traffic. From the airport trains to the city centre run every 15 minutes into Piccadilly train station; the average journey time is 20 minutes. Alternatively you can jump into a taxi to the city centre which costs less than £20.

By car

Manchester's ring road connects Manchester to motorways north, south, east and west. By road, take the M62 or the M6 to get to Manchester. The M62 is joined by the A1 (North) and the M1 (South) from the East side of the country, whilst the M6 runs both North and South of Lancashire on the UK’s West side.

To get a personalised route to University Place, use the University of Manchester's Multimap service: insert your postcode and select "University Place" from the drop down list.

Alternatively, for SatNav users, the poscode is M13 9PL.

By bus

Manchester has a free bus service operating three routes - green, orange and purple - around the city centre. Metroshuttle operates from 7am-7pm Monday to Saturday and 10am-6pm on Sundays approximately every 10 minutes taking visitors from car parks, stations and tram stops around the city centre's main attractions.
(Further information; Metroshuttle map.)