SD8400 : A bus to Arbroath
taken 6 years ago, near to Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England
W Alexander and Sons Ltd were once the biggest bus operator in Scotland. This 35 seater Leyland Tiger PS1 reg CWG 206, fleet # PA 164 entered service in 1950 working around Dundee. It was withdrawn in 1971 and is now preserved at the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport.
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 Link
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- Grid Square
- SD8400, 120 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Gerald England (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 21 September, 2019 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SD 8463 0071 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:30.1713N 2:13.9914W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SD 8464 0071
- View Direction
- West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
