Heaton Park Tramway, Transport museum and tramway in Heaton Park, Manchester, England.
Heaton Park Tramway is a tramway and transport museum set within Heaton Park, north of Manchester city centre, where restored British trams run along a circular route through the green space. The collection covers vehicles from several decades, showing how tram design changed from one era to the next.
The Greater Manchester Transport Society founded the project in 1980 to rescue historic trams from across Britain and make them available to the public. This happened more than forty years after the last regular tram line in the city stopped running.
The trams in the collection come from different British cities, so visitors can see how design varied from one place to another. Each vehicle still carries the original livery and markings of the city it once served.
Heaton Park is north of Manchester city centre and can be reached by public transport or by car. Before visiting, it is worth checking whether the tram service has resumed, as it has been paused for maintenance work.
Visitors who hold a valid driving licence can take a course and operate one of the vintage trams along the route themselves. This kind of hands-on driving opportunity is rare among museum sites of this type in Britain.
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