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South Yorkshire Transport Museum

Description: Address: Tinsley Tram Sheds / Sheffield Road / Tinsley / Sheffield S9 2FY

Newest Review: ... pieces of transport from similar museums around the Country. Likewise the South Yorkshire Transport Museum also sometimes loans out some of its own vehicles for shows and exhibitions elsewhere. From the outside the location is far from attractive. The transport museum is located on an industrial estate and the building itself is little more than a big tin shed, but I suppose that it serves ... more

... its purpose. The museum is large and spacious, as you would expect for something that houses almost thirty different buses and trams. The majority of these buses are double-decker so the building is also tall enough to accommodate these. The oldest...more

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The South Yorkshire Transport Museum (646 words)
by - written on 15/02/08 (Very useful, 167 readings)
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The South Yorkshire Transport Museum can be found at Aldwarke, near Rotherham in South Yorkshire. Until recently this transport museum was located in the former Tinsley tram sheds between Sheffield and Rotherham. I visited here about 4 years ago and it was then called the Sheffield Bus Museum. Now it has relocated, it has been given a new name, the South Yorkshire Transport Museum. The former Sheffield Bus Museum first opened its doors to the public over ten years ago, in 1997. In December 2006 this museum closed, re-opening in the Spring of 2007. This museum has a collection of trams and buses that were once in use in Sheffield and the surrounding ... Read the complete review