Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester, Transport museum in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England
The Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester, is a transport museum housed in a former bus depot on Boyle Street in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. It holds a large collection of buses, trolleybuses, and transport memorabilia spread across several connected buildings, including a protected tram shed.
The museum opened in 1979 inside buildings that had served the city's transport network for decades, with the oldest dating to 1901 when it was built as a tram depot. Over the following decades, buses replaced trams on Manchester's streets, and the depot was eventually repurposed before being handed over to preservation.
The museum takes its name from the region it documents, and walking through it gives a real sense of how public transport shaped everyday routines in Greater Manchester. Old timetables, route maps, posters, and photographs line the walls, showing how the city connected its neighborhoods long before the car became common.
The museum is in Cheetham Hill and the closest Metrolink stop is Queens Road, from where it is a short walk to the entrance. Plan for a longer visit, as the collection is spread across multiple buildings and there is a lot to see at a relaxed pace.
Some vehicles and objects in the collection were used during the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, giving the museum an unexpected link to cinema. The museum also holds the prototype body of a Manchester Metrolink tram, a piece of engineering history that never entered regular service.
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