2012

SD8400 : 3496 Platform

taken 12 years ago, near to Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England

3496 Platform
3496 Platform
Prior to the mid 1960s, most service buses had an open rear platform like this. Passengers could (and did) hop on and off between stops; looking back now, its amazing that there weren't more accidents. This one is on Manchester Corporation 3496, a restored 1958 Leyland PD2, outside the Museum of Transport on Boyle Street.

See other images of Manchester Leyland PD2, 3496
Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport is based at Boyle Street, in one of Manchester's earliest bus garages, adjoining the first tram depot at Queens Road (both are Grade II listed buildings). The museum has been established there since 1979.

The Museum of Transport has one of the largest collections of its kind in the country. It is run by volunteers of the Greater Manchester Transport Society (GMTS) but the Museum is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (formerly Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive).

The core of the collection represents the wide variety of fleets absorbed into the Passenger Transport Executive from 1969 onwards. These include the municipal fleets from Ashton, Bolton, Bury, Leigh, Manchester, Oldham, Ramsbottom, Rochdale, SHMD, Salford, Stockport and Wigan (1974) as well as part of North Western (1972) and Lancashire United Transport(1981).

The Museum’s web site is at LinkExternal link


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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Boyle Street [27] · Outside [12] · Manchester Corporation 3496 [4] Other Photos: · The Conductor ·
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SD8400, 120 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 9 September, 2012   (more nearby)
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Monday, 10 September, 2012
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OSGB36: geotagged! SD 8458 0070 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:30.1659N 2:14.0366W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SD 8458 0071
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