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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 ...
They are double deck fully enclosed vehicles, although they run on standard gauge tracks of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) rather than the usual Hong Kong tram gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm). The vehicles arrived in the United Kingdom in 1993, and acceptance trials were carried out on the Blackpool tramway , where the cars ran until the Wirral ...
The management of Stagecoach Merseyside as GTL had become - although Glenvale Transport Ltd is still the company's legal lettering, was passed to Stagecoach UK Bus MD Les Warneford, and Tom Wileman, Regional Director, Stephen Riggans, formerly of Arriva UK Bus, would later become Managing Director.
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 ...
Woodside is situated on the eastern side of the Wirral Peninsula, adjoining the River Mersey to the east. Woodside is about 5.5 km (3.4 mi) south-south-east of the Irish Sea at New Brighton and about 10.5 km (6.5 mi) east-north-east of the Dee Estuary at Thurstaston. The area is at an elevation of between 0–11 m (0–36 ft) above sea level. [12
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.
The buses supplemented an earlier tram service. In 1860, Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula , had become the first town in Europe to operate a street tramway. It was started by George Francis Train , an American, when he laid track from Woodside Ferry to Birkenhead Park Main Entrance and ran a horse drawn car service.