Museum of Transport Greater Manchester

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We'll take you back! Open Wednesdays, weekends and bank holidays 10 am to 4.30 pm. Adult admission £7.50, student/jobseeker £6, disabled/children free. https://motgm.uk

Vintage red double-decker buses lined up beside a corrugated metal depot, with a Texaco fuel tanker and buses parked in a storage yard.
Timetable for Service 5 (Museum of Transport — Manchester city centre loop) and Service 12 (Museum of Transport — Salford Art Gallery) showing scheduled arrival/departure times at stops including Museum of Transport, Queens Road Metrolink, Corporation Street, Shudehill and Peel Park.
Vintage red double-decker bus with a large "Littlewoods" advertisement emerging from a depot and turning onto a quiet residential street lined with terraced houses and parked cars.
Two vintage red double-decker Lancashire United buses parked beside a red‑brick depot, displaying route 38 to Swinton/Walkden, under a large "Remembering Lancashire United" headline recalling the historic local bus company.
Vintage cream-and-red double-decker bus in a museum workshop (Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester) undergoing restoration, lower panels removed with tools and spare parts nearby.
Double-decker Manchester Corporation bus stopped at a city bus stop outside the city's library, with a vintage car passing and pedestrians on a cobbled street.
Poster announcing Remembering Lancashire United heritage bus weekend, Saturday & Sunday 25/26 July 2026, with vintage red buses in the background and printed service timetables for museum routes. The services will run between the Museum and Shudehill Interchange, and between the Museum and Salford art gallery and museum.
A nineteen seventies small single-decker bus marked "591 Service" approaches the camera on a wet, quiet residential street lined with houses, fences and a 30 mph sign.
An old typed document has on it a list of places to be printed on a destination blind for a bus working in the Wilmslow area. The blind has a long list of names including Wilmslow, Manchester, Macclesfield and obscure places such as Stormy Point and Brook Lane Corner. But it also has some names from places that are further away such as Blackpool, Derby and Leeds.
An attractive blue double deck bus stands outside the Museum of Transport. It's a Leigh Corporation bus, number fifteen, and it has specially built low height bodywork that was needed to pass under low railway bridges in the town.
A nineteen sixties bus approaches a bus stop and shelter. The bus is painted cream and a red pinkish colour. In eth background we see scaffolding next to an old building, and beyond that there's a nineteen sixties glass tower block.
A small bus, top half orange and bottom half white, stands at a bus stop just outside a concrete building with a clock on its front, partly obscured by the bus. the destination display reads seven hundred shop hopper.
Two photographers watch a preserved red Lancashire United bus from the Museum of Transport at Shudehill Interchange in central Manchester. The picture also has text giving the date of the Lancashire United event, on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth of July.
A maroon traditional double deck bus stands near the museum of transport. It's Bolton seventy-seven, a 1956 Leyland. The destination reads Farnworth.
The photographer is inside Manchester Victoria station in nineteen ninety. On the right, in the middle distance, is an orange electric multiple unit train, British Rail five oh four, that's about to depart for Bury. In the foreground, on the track bed there's dirty ballast and a pile of rubble. The station roof is supported by huge red iron columns, but the roof itself is dark and dirty.
A black and white photo shows a nineteen fifties motor coach parked on a street, surrounded by cars. There are shops to the left of the bus, and grander stone buildings line the street in the distance. There are parked cars and a motor bike parked ahead and behind the coach.
A 1960s coach arrives at Manchester Chorlton Street coach station. It's painted all-over white, with a very big 'national' name on the side and, smaller and near the front, a red north western fleet name. The destination display reads Llandudno eight one five.
A black and white photo shows a very handsome nineteen sixties coach being admired by two men dressed in suits. Some of the side lockers on the coach and the entrance door are open. The destination blind says British Coach Rally, and in the background there's a kind of lattice structure and behind that there's a very tall concrete wall.
A yellow and black poster advertises a business named Tower Property Company of Whitefield. The poster says that the business offers expert property repairs, pointing, plus gutter and down spout repairs. The slogan on the poster says that our aim is satisfaction through good workmanship.
An orange and white double deck bus leaves a big brick bus garage and heads towards the camera, partly obscured by a traffic bollard. To the left there's a long, straight street heading uphill with a small, grey block of flats at the top.
A very smart and impressive breakdown lorry stands inside a bus garage, with some of the Museum of Transport vintage buses behind it. The lorry is painted blue and silver, and it's topped with a big array of flashing yellow warning lights.
A black and white photo shows a busy railway station scene. On the left we see a squat Victorian station building, then the wet station platform in the centre, and on the right there are railway carriages. At the far end of the train we can just see a steam locomotive and, in the distance, a semaphore railway signal set to clear. The scene is very busy, with lots of people on the platform or leaning out of the train windows.
An old fashioned but very smart red double deck bus stands outside the museum of transport. It has the name North Western in yellow on the side, and the destination reads Woodford via Stockport and Poynton. There's also a number 432 in bold yellow on the bonnet.
A busy bus station scene shows buses to left and right in various colour schemes. In the foreground there's a zebra crossing, and on the left there's a lady walking very purposefully across the crossing, dressed in a white pair of trousers and off-white jacket and carrying a blue bag.
A new display at the Museum of Transport shows the history and presence of. Bee Network, the brand of Greater Manchester’s publicly-controlled bus network. There are video screens, uniforms, ephemera and a bike.
A black and white photo shows a Salford City Transport bus turning from one road into another. It feels spacious, there are trees and flowers and, beyond a tall wire fence, open space up to a large building in the distance. The bus says Radcliffe six in its destination display, and on the left we see the back of a lorry heading away from the camera.
A very busy scene shows the inside of Queens Road bus garage on Saturday the sixth of June, with lots of people browsing the garage and looking at modern and vintage buses.
A red nineteen sixties double decker bus calls at Shudehill interchange in central Manchester. At the left, two men with cameras get ready to take a photo of the bus.
Two very smart red Manchester buses stand outside the Museum of Transport. The one on the left is a double decker, and is a Leyland Atlantean type. The one on the right is a single deck type, and it's a Leyland Panther Cub.
A forest of scaffolding surrounds a lift tower at Queens Road Metrolink stop. Underneath the scaffolding it’s possible to glimpse a mural being painted, with a vintage tram and vintage buses on a yellow background.
A red Manchester double decker bus stands outside the Museum of Transport. It’s three seven oh six, a Leyland Titan built in nineteen sixty-four.
We see a close-up of a modern bus wheel. The wheel has a silver wheel trim on it, and the wheel and the panel surrounding it are painted orange.
The right side of the photo is dominated by the back of an orange and white bus heading away from the camera, while on the left we can see the old Manchester fire station with the nose of a fire engine just visible. Next to the bus there's a bus lane sign, with buses allowed to go straight on but all other traffic instructed to turn left.
A tray of diecast scale bus models sits on a table in their boxes. There are a lot of models, probably over a hundred in this view.
It's night time, and a Museum of Transport volunteer in a high visibility tabard is standing on a gantry washing the roof of an orange 1970s Leyland single deck bus.
Four scatter cushions are lined up in a row on the seat of a bus. Each cushion is about thirty centimetres square, and from left to right they're in a green Manchester Corporation pattern of moquette; Greater Manchester Transport orange; Stagecoach blue; and Stagecoach green.
A black and white photo shows a Manchester Corporation bus turning a corner from one road into another. To the right there's a windowless building, perhaps public toilets or an electricity substation; and behind it we see a church with a very tall steeple. The bus seems to have the destination Queens Road, with the route number seventy-eight ex.
Two people are sitting at a table, and each one has a laptop computer in front of them. They're using a simulator program to drive a Metrolink tram.
A beautifully drawn travel poster shows a line drawing, in bright colours, of Bristol cathedral with bold writing that advertises the Ribble company's express services to Bristol.
A nineteen nineties scene shows a new bus owned by the Mayne company of Manchester, in an unusual colour scheme of crimson with three turquoise bands. This was the company's original livery before they changed to red and cream.
A set of pens, coasters and other trinkets sits on a grey table. They're all themed merchandise for the Queens Road One Two Five event next weekend.
Two teenage girls are sitting on teh wooden bench seats in a vintage tram, watching a video presentation. They're leaning forward, concentrating on the programme.
Two volunteers at the museum of transport are standing in the street next to museum, using long brushes to wash a smart blue double deck bus.
An old-fashioned looking orange and white bus is in an urban street. To the left we see the green leaves of a tree, but the road stretching away on the right of the photograph shows shops and cars, with a church in the distance. It's hard to read the route number on the bus but it seems to say eighty-nine.
Two orange and off-white buses from the nineteen seventies stand in a bus turning circle.
A vintage-looking lorry, converted from an old bus, is being pushed by a group of museum of transport volunteers. Its colour scheme is crimson and cream, and behind the crew area there's a tall wooden tower that was used to reach street lights or overhanging trees.
A maroon and white double deck bus drives past the camera. A large, cast iron railway bridge goes over the road just behind the bus, while on the left there's a dirty Victorian building that has on it a sign, saying West Pennine Water Board. To complete the picture, in the foreground we see a women in a back coat and headscarf carrying a wicker shopping bag.
A dark green nineteen sixties double deck bus leans over as it turns onto a main road, followed by a maroon and cream bus following closely behind. We see roadworks lamps and baulks of wood, and it seems that the road here is new or possibly still under construction. There are no buildings close by, but in the distance there seems to be a modern motorway style bridge; and in the very far distance, hills on the horizon.
An old fashioned red and white double deck bus stands outside the Museum of Transport. It's a nineteen thirty-nine Salford Corporation bus, number two three five, that is restored and on display at the museum.
And old orange and off-white double deck bus stands in Leigh bus station. It's a Leyland 'Titan' and its destination on the blind is quite unusual, as it says dangerous corner.
A black and white photo shows a smart nineteen sixties coach in a grotty northern town scene. The coach is full and seemingly about to depart on an excursion. Behind the coach we can see a stone bridge, with buildings beyond; and next to the coach, a tall brick building covered in scaffolding.
A red and cream single deck bus stands outside the museum of transport. It's rather square in design. Instead of being at the front, the entrance door is half way along the side of the bus. This would have made it impossible for people to pay as they boarded, so a conductor was carried.