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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
This is a route-map template for the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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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.
Records exist of a ferry service across the River Mersey between Birkenhead on the west bank and Liverpool on the east since the Middle Ages.In 1332 the monks of Birkenhead Priory were granted exclusive rights to operate a ferry; following the dissolution of the monasteries these rights passed through a number of operators eventually to the township of Birkenhead.