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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]
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 ...
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 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.
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.
Heaton Park was originally the private landscape park surrounding Heaton Hall, but was sold to Manchester City Council in 1902 for use as a municipal park. Shortly after the park was bought by the council, a branch of Manchester Corporation Tramways was built 280 yards (260 m) into the park from the existing tramway on Middleton Road.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is a local government body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester in North West England. It is an executive arm of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), the city region's administrative authority.