Description
The Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester tells the story of, and promotes, public road transport in Greater Manchester from its very beginnings in 1824 to the present day. The collection spans over 100 years, from an 1890s horse bus to a full size prototype Metrolink tram.
Greater Manchester has much to be proud of in transport terms; they had the first purpose built canal in 1761, the first bus service in the UK in 1824, the world’s first public passenger carrying railway in 1830 and one of the first extensive tramway networks in Britain.
If you are looking for Best Museums and Art Galleries in Cheetam Hill , Greater Manchester then you can visit Museum of Transport. Museum of Transport is one of the places in Cheetam Hill Greater Manchester for day out with kids and families. More details can be found on the website for this place.
Features
- Paid
- Host birthday parties: No
Features
On Site Parking
On Site Cafe
Greater Manchester’s public road transport heritage
The Museum’s focus is the history of road passenger transport in Greater Manchester and there are over seventy buses and other vehicles on display. It is a ‘working’ museum, with as many vehicles as possible maintained in full working order. This helps give the Museum the atmosphere of a bus garage of bygone years, lending a realistic setting to the vehicles themselves. Maintenance and restoration is undertaken by the Museum’s volunteers.
Explore our object collection
The venue offers Relics Signs, Bus & tram stops, Badges, buttons & tokens, Uniform, Fare collection
Document Collection
They have an extensive collection of documents relating to the transport history of Greater Manchester. They have virtually every published book on local transport history, technical workshop manuals, around 200 periodical titles, over 2,000 time and fare tables, annual reports and accounts, commemorative brochures, Acts of Parliament, and examples of tickets from all the Greater Manchester operators.
Image collection
Several thousand photographs, transparencies and glass plate negatives, film and video, taken by official photographers, manufacturers or interested amateurs, depicting buses, trams, trolleybuses, personnel, buildings, street scenes or events are held in our comprehensive image collection.
Publicity and poster collections
They hold the official publicity archives of Transport for Greater Manchester and our collection of 'Job Bags' holds the historical records of publicity material, together with examples of the finished products. Material ranges from leaflets to Bus Guides, bus interior coving posters and adverts to beer mats! There is also publicity material from manufacturers of vehicles, ticketing and other equipment, and from operators for holidays, tours and excursions, supported by posters for such activities.
School Visits
They offer free admission for school visits on Wednesdays (pre-booking is required). Groups of up to 30 including teachers and assistants can be accommodated
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