The University of Manchester is located close to both Piccadilly main line station (about two and a half hours from London) and Oxford Road train station, with Victoria train station a little further away.
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Manchester's main stations are highlighted on the city map (PDF file, 137 KB).
Piccadilly Station
The Sackville Street area of the campus is within 5 minutes' walk of Piccadilly Station. Leave the station via the Fairfield Street entrance (where the taxi rank is), cross London Road, and down Fairfield Street which is straight ahead of you. Continue down Fairfield Street and the Sackville Street building is on your left.
The Oxford Road Link bus (no 147) runs from Piccadilly Rail Station across the campus stopping at 14 locations and finishing at Grafton Street. This service runs on weekdays between 7.15am and 6.45pm, at 10-minute intervals, and can be caught from the Fairfield Street entrance to Piccadilly Station.
A taxi from Piccadilly Station to the Oxford Road area of the campus will cost you about £5.
Victoria station is about a mile from the Sackville Street area of the campus. The easiest way is to take a Metrolink tram to Piccadilly station, and follow the route described above.
To get to the Oxford Road area of the campus, buses 191 and 197 run from Victoria station (from Corporation Street, outside the Co-operative Bank).
To get to the Sackville Street area of the campus, go down the station approach and cross Oxford Road. Then turn directly right onto Whitworth Street, and the campus is about a 5 minute walk.
To get to the Oxford Road area of the campus, go down the station approach to Oxford Road and turn right. The campus is a ten to fifteen minute walk. Alternatively, buses stop outside the Palace Hotel.
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