2020

SD8400 : Heritage Buses outside the Museum of Transport

taken 4 years ago, near to Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England

Heritage Buses outside the Museum of Transport
Heritage Buses outside the Museum of Transport
Two buses from the museum's collection, standing outside the entrance on Boyle Street. 1722 (XVU 352M) is a GMT Seddon Pennine IV-236 Midibus from 1974. This model was usually seen on the “centreline” service around the city Centre. The red Bristol K5G double-decker bus (AJA 152) is much older, having been delivered new to the North Western company in 1939. It carried fleet number 432
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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SD8400, 120 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 23 February, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 1 March, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 845 007 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:30.1874N 2:14.0367W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SD 845 007
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North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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