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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 ...
Alan Pearce acquired this Lisbon tram, dating from 1930, for further use on the Seaton Tramway in Devon. However, it was stored at Walton-on-the-Naze for several years, and was donated to the MTPS in 2004. The Lisbon system uses a gauge of 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in), and so it had to be regauged to run on the Wirral Tramway. Restoration ...
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 ...
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.
Horse car 43 is a static exhibit at the Wirral Transport Museum in Birkenhead. Car 293 survives at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport , Maine , United States of America . Car 245 was restored to operational condition in 2014, by members of the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society at the Wirral Transport Museum in Birkenhead , [ 4 ...
The Lisbon tramway network (Portuguese: Rede de elétricos de Lisboa) is a system of trams that serves Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. In operation since 1873, it presently comprises six lines. The system has a length of 31 km, and 63 trams in operation (45 historic "Remodelados", 8 historic "Ligeiros" and 10 modern articulated trams).
The truck of 9062 still resides in the yard of the Wirral Transport Museum, albeit dismantled and awaiting a future use. Graz Tramway Network: 225: 1949: 1988: 16: Purple: Sold to the Brighton Tram 53 Society in 2010, but scrapped in 2021: The second stalwart of the early running fleet. Built in 1950, 225 operated in the Austrian city until 1989.
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]