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53°45′09″N 1°44′47″W / 53.7526°N 1.7463°W / 53.7526; -1.7463
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Auditorium of the former Transperience transport museum, February 2010

Transperience was a short-lived museum of passenger transport located at Low Moor, in the south of Bradford in West Yorkshire, Northern England. It opened in July 1995, but closed only 2 years later in October 1997, with debts of over £1 million. [1]

Museum

The museum was built on the site of Low Moor railway station, (which had closed in 1965), at a cost of £11.5 million. [1] It included a 1,100-yard (1 km) tram line which made use of the trackbed of the Spen Valley Line towards Cleckheaton, and visitors could ride on a Hungarian tram or a trolleybus. There was also a series of vehicle simulators and an auditorium.

The museum failed to attract the numbers of visitors hoped [1] and was closed in 1997.

The site today

The museum site was sold to a property developer in 1998 [2] and is now an industrial estate. Some parts of the museum, such as the auditorium, still stand. [3] A number of the vehicles in its collection have been sold to other collections, such as the Keighley Bus Museum [4] or the Dewsbury Bus Museum.

Reopened station

The land formerly occupied by the museum is the site of the new Low Moor railway station.

References

  1. ^ a b c Oldham, Nick (3 April 1998). "Where Transperience went off the rails". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Probe call into £11.5 million Transperience investment". Telegraph & Argus. 6 July 1998. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  3. ^ Bolton, Humphrey (8 February 2010). "Auditorium of the former Transperience transport museum". Geograph. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  4. ^ "End of the road for 'dream park'".

Further reading

  • "The final blow for Transperience - 'new' museum faces demolition". RAIL. No. 342. EMAP Apex Publications. 21 October – 3 November 1998. p. 16. ISSN  0953-4563. OCLC  49953699.

53°45′09″N 1°44′47″W / 53.7526°N 1.7463°W / 53.7526; -1.7463


transperience Latitude and Longitude:

53°45′09″N 1°44′47″W / 53.7526°N 1.7463°W / 53.7526; -1.7463
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Auditorium of the former Transperience transport museum, February 2010

Transperience was a short-lived museum of passenger transport located at Low Moor, in the south of Bradford in West Yorkshire, Northern England. It opened in July 1995, but closed only 2 years later in October 1997, with debts of over £1 million. [1]

Museum

The museum was built on the site of Low Moor railway station, (which had closed in 1965), at a cost of £11.5 million. [1] It included a 1,100-yard (1 km) tram line which made use of the trackbed of the Spen Valley Line towards Cleckheaton, and visitors could ride on a Hungarian tram or a trolleybus. There was also a series of vehicle simulators and an auditorium.

The museum failed to attract the numbers of visitors hoped [1] and was closed in 1997.

The site today

The museum site was sold to a property developer in 1998 [2] and is now an industrial estate. Some parts of the museum, such as the auditorium, still stand. [3] A number of the vehicles in its collection have been sold to other collections, such as the Keighley Bus Museum [4] or the Dewsbury Bus Museum.

Reopened station

The land formerly occupied by the museum is the site of the new Low Moor railway station.

References

  1. ^ a b c Oldham, Nick (3 April 1998). "Where Transperience went off the rails". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Probe call into £11.5 million Transperience investment". Telegraph & Argus. 6 July 1998. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  3. ^ Bolton, Humphrey (8 February 2010). "Auditorium of the former Transperience transport museum". Geograph. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  4. ^ "End of the road for 'dream park'".

Further reading

  • "The final blow for Transperience - 'new' museum faces demolition". RAIL. No. 342. EMAP Apex Publications. 21 October – 3 November 1998. p. 16. ISSN  0953-4563. OCLC  49953699.

53°45′09″N 1°44′47″W / 53.7526°N 1.7463°W / 53.7526; -1.7463


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