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Wirral Transport Museum is a museum situated approximately 0.5 miles (800 m) from the Mersey Ferry service at Woodside, Birkenhead, England. A vintage tram service links the museum and the ferry at certain times. Admission into the museum is free with a broad selection of vintage and classic vehicles, including trams, buses, cars, motorcycles ...
Lisbon No.730 at Woodside Ferry Terminal. The two four-wheeled Hong Kong trams [15] are numbered 69 and 70 to follow on from the numbering of the original Birkenhead Corporation Tramways, the numbers of which went up to No.68. [4] These are run from the Wirral Transport Museum in Taylor Street.
Electrified in 1901, tram services were discontinued in Birkenhead on 17 July 1937. [6] A preserved Edwardian era tram is on display in the Woodside Ferry booking hall. Originally built by the Great Western Railway in the 1870s, Birkenhead Woodside railway station was a mainline terminus, with services direct to London Paddington. The station ...
The Wirral Street Car is a proposed tramway from Bidston Dock to Woodside Ferry Terminal to provide transport links for the Wirral Waters development. [1] The line will use pre-existing rolling stock as well as incorporating both the disused Birkenhead Dock Branch and the Wirral Tramway that already operates as a heritage service from the Wirral Transport Museum to Woodside Ferry Terminal.
In 1860, Birkenhead started the first street tramway in Britain, [2] shortly before London. The Birkenhead Corporation Tramway company was formed through the acquisition of the Birkenhead United Tramways, Omnibus and Carriage Company (known as Birkenhead Street Railway Company Limited 1860-1877, Birkenhead Tramways Company 1877-1890) on 31 December 1900, and the Wirral Tramway Company on 8 May ...
Birkenhead Transport buses at Woodside Ferry Terminal in September 1966 Preserved GM Buses Birkenhead & District liveried Northern Counties bodied Daimler Fleetline in October 2009 Birkenhead's first livery on trams and buses was maroon and cream with a white roof, but in 1934 Birkenhead's famous blue and cream livery was applied to a new AEC Q ...
People look at posters and signs from the 1930-1960 era on display at the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati on Thursday, June 27, 2024. What are the best signs in the collection?
Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station was a railway station in Birkenhead, Wirral, England. It was situated very close to the River Mersey named after the monks at Birkenhead Priory. For most of its life, the station was part of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, a joint railway. The station was originally opened without authority in April 1838.