Train season ticket to "Manchester CTZL" and free rides on the Metrolink

A question about : Train season ticket to "Manchester CTZL" and free rides on the Metrolink

Does anybody know whether if I got a season ticket from my local station to Manchester CTZL, would I be able to use the metrolink within the city centre for free, the same as you can for one off tickets? The info on the metrolink site only looks to talk about purchasing tickets and using on the same day.

Best answers:

• Yes, that should work fine. Is it a GMPTE travelcard you have? I get a montlhy one and it covers the whole of Greater Manchester for Ј88, and includes travel within the city centre zone on Metrolink.
  Just make sure you know what constitutes the city centre zone!
• I'm looking at a season pass purchased from my local train station (as advertised on national rail website) - I'd be heading to the heart of Manchester a couple of stops from Piccadilly definitely in the "central zone". https://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/servic...nticket/search
• Yes.
  My train season ticket says it's valid between "Manchester Stations & (my local station)" and it's been checked and accepted by TfM tram inspectors on a few occasions for cross-town use.
• I hadn't thought to check GMPTE.
  A season ticket restricted to my local station to Manchester is Ј930. An any train any bus within Greater Manchester is Ј1005 - just Ј6 a month more for complete flexibility. That is tempting!
• Ooooh, perhaps even better
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• Ah ha, tucked away on the national rail site...
  https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_...b/details.html
  Just posting all this as very useful information. So Ј95 cheaper for me than a standard season ticket and allows unlimited train travel within Greater Manchester plus this confirms it does cover City Centre Metrolink.
• So now you just have to decide whether it's worth paying more to have the flexibility of bus travel added (I think the train & bus option is known as a System One travelcard).
• First I have to get the job, one more interview to go...
  Given the Traincard provides unlimited rail travel within the Greater Manchester area, that's the one I'd go for - Ј95 cheaper than the normal season ticket between my local station and Piccadilly (restricted to that one route) and and Ј170 cheaper than the system one that includes the bus. I'd never get Ј170 worth of use out of the bus.