The Park was somewhat inaccessible, and as a rail connection from the Cheshire Lines was being brought into the works by a canal bridge, for which the Company had to foot the bill, plans were drawn up for a passenger platform to the west of the main shops. Eventually the railway agreed to build a station (Trafford Park) in Moss Road near the south gate of the works, but only under a guarantee from the Company to share the cost if it were not sufficiently used.

Moss Road itself was a country lane, little more than a cart-track and in winter a long slog through quagmire. The road was so narrow that vehicles could only pass at a central lay-by, and it crossed the Bridgewater Canal by the narrow humpbacked Taylor's Bridge, which somehow survived into the thirties. Vehicles scattered pedestrians into the hedge, and to avoid delay the works superintendent, travelling in his gig, would send on an advance guard to clear the road. Heads of departments and foremen usually hired four-wheelers, crowding them to capacity, but for most the walk from Stretford was unavoidable.

On the north side of the works the only public conveyances at first were gasengined cars, miscalled individually the Lamp-oil Express and collectively the Channel Fleet. These ran on railway lines and struggled up and down between the Park gates and Trafford Park Hotel, often so overloaded that the passengers had to get out and push or, alternatively, stampede across muddy fields and railway lines to the works. On the extension of the electric trams (with cattle-truck trailers for standing passengers) into the Park in 1907, the gas cars ceased to be much used, though they continued, mainly for goods, until 1910. To reach Old Trafford from Manchester one took a horse-drawn truck fitted with a penny turnstile.

Near the north gate a model housing estate was laid out by an independent building company with 'cottages' fitted with electric light and baths; the American fashion of numbered avenues and streets was opposed by the Stretford Council but without effect. At the corner nearest the works a hostel was built to accommodate visiting customers and Company officials; billiards and a shale tennis court were available. For a time Trafford Hall also was used as a guest house.

Work started at 7 a.m., the signal being given by the 'buzzer' whose penetrating voice is still heard, sometimes with dismay, for many miles around. Workmen's attendance was recorded by a 'clocking' system; once late since 1903 is the proud record of Jimmy Hinds of the iron foundry. Staff names were taken at the gate at 8.30, and those who arrived late were required to sign a book, stating their names