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The museum was established in 1977 at Boyle Street, Cheetham Hill. It opened to the public on 27 May 1979. The day-to-day running of the museum is carried out by volunteers. The museum is housed in a former Manchester Corporation Transport bus depot, to the rear of a former electric tram shed on Queens Road, built in 1901. The museum building ...
Greater Manchester Transport: 1722 XVU 352M 1974 [1] Single deck bus Greater Manchester Transport: EX62 GNC 276N 1975 [1] Single deck coach Yelloway: HVU 244N 1975 [1] Double deck bus Greater Manchester Transport: 5083 ORJ 83W 1981 [3] Double deck bus GM Buses South: 8706 A706 LNC 1984 [1] Double deck bus Greater Manchester Transport: 3065 B65 ...
website, history and artifacts of the Manchester Regiment: Museum of Transport: Cheetham Hill: Manchester: Transportation: Buses and public transportation history Museum of Wigan Life: Wigan: Wigan: Local: Formerly the History Shop and Wigan Public Library. Includes exhibits on local history, culture, archaeology and industry. National Football ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
The Manchester Transport Museum Society, operators of a museum tramway in Heaton Park, Manchester, UK. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Manchester Transport Museum .
Greater Manchester Transport Centreline bus on display at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester. Transport across the Greater Manchester conurbation historically suffered from poor north–south connections due to the fact that Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, [2] [3] were built in the 1840s on peripheral locations outside Manchester city centre.
Museum of Transport can refer to: Glasgow Museum of Transport; Birmingham and Midland Museum of Transport; National Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri; Museum of Transport in Manchester, UK; See also: List of transport museums
L2 at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester. The company's only surviving horse bus, now to be found in the collection of the Manchester Museum of Transport. This particular example is believed to have been built in 1890, and finally withdrawn from service in 1914. It has undergone a number of refurbishments.