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The Reading Transport Society spent years searching for a site where their vehicles could be exhibited and operated, and were instrumental in setting up The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft in 1969, where all of the preserved vehicles are normally stored. The Society was rebranded as the British Trolleybus Society in 1971, reflecting the wider ...
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]
In 2011, the museum was the largest trolleybus museum in Britain, housing some 50 vehicles, including some imported from abroad, and about half of this number could be used to give rides to the public over an oval two-way circuit. [2] By 2019, the number of vehicles had increased to over 60.
In the United Kingdom the first trolleybus systems were inaugurated on 20 June 1911 [1] in Bradford and Leeds, although public service in Bradford did not commence until 24 June. [1] Coincidentally, the UK's last trolleybus service also operated in Bradford, on 26 March 1972. [1] [2] A Walsall trolleybus at the Black Country Living Museum
Reading Transport Limited, [1] trading as Reading Buses, is an English municipal bus operator owned by Reading Borough Council, [2] serving the towns of Reading, Bracknell, Newbury, Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead, Wokingham and the surrounding areas in the counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Hampshire, as well as parts of Greater London.
The origins of Reading Transport can be traced back to 1878, when the privately owned Reading Tramways Company (part of the Imperial Tramways Company) was formed. They were initially authorised to construct and operate a horse tram route on an east–west alignment from Oxford Road through Broad Street in the town centre to Cemetery Junction .
The exhibits are “Journey Stories” and “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964.”
No.862 was moved to the Black Country Living Museum and is used to give public rides. The museum have a second trolleybus that carries the Walsall livery, but was actually No.735 from the Bradford system. [25] No.874 was one of a batch of four BUT vehicles bought from the Grimsby-Cleethorpes system in 1960 when that closed. They were renumbered ...