Jurby Transport Museum, Transport museum in Jurby, Isle of Man
Jurby Transport Museum is a transport museum housed in a former aircraft hangar on the Isle of Man, displaying buses, motorcycles, bicycles, and commercial vehicles spanning different eras. The collection ranges from 1927 to 1997 and shows how transportation evolved on the island.
The museum opened to the public in April 2010, prepared beforehand by a group of volunteers and inaugurated by its then chairman Richard Davis together with Chief Minister Tony Brown. It occupies a former aircraft hangar in Jurby and has since received over 30,000 visitors. It is run by volunteers of the Manx Transport Trust and receives no public funding.
The vehicles on display show how transportation shaped daily life and work across the island over many decades. The collection tells the story of how people moved around and connected with each other through changing times.
The museum can be reached by Bus Vannin services 17 and 18, which connect Jurby with Ramsey. Free parking is available for cars and coaches.
The museum holds the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge Hibberd 4wDM locomotive and its bogie carriage that once ran on the Queen's Pier Tramway at Ramsey. Both briefly returned to the pier on 19 July 2021 for the reopening of the first restored section of the tramway.
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