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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Greater Manchester Transport: 3065 B65 PJA 1984 [1] Double deck bus Greater Manchester Transport: 5208 C208 FVU 1986 [1] Minibus The Bee Line Buzz Company: 63 D63 NOF 1986 [1] Minibus GM Buses: 1676 D676 NNE 1987 [1] Light rail vehicle Manchester Metrolink: 1000 N/A 1990 [1] Minibus Ring and Ride: W4 M939 XKA 1994 [1] Low-floor double deck bus ...
The bus network had an annual ridership of 145.8 million passengers in 2023. [34] Manchester was the first council outside London to bring buses back into public control after their deregulation in 1986. [35] This was carried out in 3 tranches, commencing in September 2023 and concluding in January 2025.
Bee Network buses operated by Stagecoach Manchester at Oldham bus station in April 2024 Audio-visual bus stop announcement system in a Bee Network bus, showing the upcoming four bus stops Between 1986 and 2025 the bus network in Greater Manchester was deregulated , with local control of services having been removed as a consequence of the ...
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.
Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road ( A34 ) at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about 4.5 million items from every continent.