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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 itself was added later and consists of two distinct halves, a dedicated bus garage completed in 1928, which now serves as the museum entrance area and upper hall, and a lower ...
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 ...
This list of museums in Greater Manchester, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits ...
Manchester Transport Museum may refer to: The Greater Manchester Museum of Transport, a transport museum in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, UK. The Manchester Transport Museum Society, operators of a museum tramway in Heaton Park, Manchester, UK.
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.
The Ashton trolleybus system also served the city of Manchester. [1] Two of the former Ashton system trolleybuses are now preserved. One of them is at the Greater Manchester Transport Museum in Cheetham, Manchester, and the other one is based at the East Anglia Transport Museum, Carlton Colville, Suffolk. [4]
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]
Beamish museum; Darlington Railway Centre and Museum (Recently renamed: Head of Steam) Hopetown Carriage Works; Locomotion Museum, Shildon, (free entry) Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland; Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields