With rows of desks situated in front of a digital clock and a bank of a dozen screens, it almost resembles the inside of Star Trek's Starship Enterprise.
Rather than visitors from other galaxies, this is where the people inside will control the movements of the almost a million people set to flood into the city centre this weekend.
As the woman in charge tells me, 'no one knows we're here.' Yet what they do behind the scenes has a huge impact on the hundreds of thousands of people every day. BLACK FRIDAY OFFER: Get three months of MEN Premium for FREE with our amazing Black Friday deal.
Just click here to give it a go. This is the Control Centre, a small room tucked inside Transport for Greater Manchester's offices next to Piccadilly Station.