All systems By city In development
Proposed and under construction
Systems in development
Not a metro. Nothing on this page carries passengers yet. It is here so you can tell at a glance whether the scheme you have read about is something you can actually ride.
Several British cities are building or designing new networks, and news coverage often makes them sound closer than they are. Coventry has run a prototype on a test track, Leeds and Bradford have funding for a tram scheme in the 2030s, and Glasgow’s Clyde Metro is a long-term proposal rather than a project with a date.
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Coventry Very Light Rail
Not yet open
Best for Watching this space
A battery tram running on a shallow track that avoids moving utilities, which is what makes it cheap. A prototype has run on a city-centre test track.
Leeds and Bradford mass transit
Not yet open
Best for The 2030s
Funded and in design. Leeds is the largest city in western Europe without a mass transit system, and has been since the trams closed in 1959.
Clyde Metro, Glasgow
Not yet open
Best for The long term
A proposal to build a far larger network across the Glasgow conurbation, well beyond the existing Subway circle. Decades away.
Edinburgh tram to Granton
Not yet open
Best for North Edinburgh
An extension of the existing line beyond the current Newhaven terminus.
West Midlands Metro extensions
Partly open
Best for Birmingham and the Black Country
The network keeps growing in stages towards Brierley Hill and beyond; check the live map for what has opened.
Fares checked September 2026. Confirm on the operator’s own fares page before you buy.
How to pay
- Nothing to buy yet
- All of these are expected to use contactless capping from opening
Concessions
- Not yet applicable.
Worth knowing
- If you are planning a trip, treat everything on this page as not existing. Only the West Midlands extensions are partly usable.
- Coventry’s scheme is the most genuinely novel: if it works, it makes trams affordable for mid-sized cities.
- For Leeds today, the local rail network and buses are the whole story — see the West Yorkshire Metro page.