Bury Transport Museum is a transport museum in
Bury, Greater Manchester, situated in the former Castlecroft Goods Warehouse, a
Grade II listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ir ...
from 1846,
[British Listed Buildings]
Bury Transport Museum on Castlecroft Road, with the main entrance from Bolton Street, BL9 0EY.
It was started in 1973 by volunteers of the
East Lancashire Railway
East Lancashire Railway is a heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall in Lancashire. There are intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street, , Summerseat and Ramsbottom, with ...
,
[Bury Times, July 23, 1974] had to close in 2003 because of roof problems but opened again in 2010.
[Bury Times 01 April 2010]
Duke opens refurbished transport museum and black pudding factory in Bury
File:Bury Transport Museum East Exterior April 2017.jpg, East Exterior
File:Bury Transport Museum Interior April 2017 01.jpg, Part of vehicles display
File:Steam Roller Hilda, Thomas Green, Bury April 2017.jpg, Steam roller 'Hilda'
File:Bury Transport Museum Interior April 2017 03.jpg, Model of woman sitting on a station bench where visitors can also sit
See also
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Listed buildings in Bury
Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, and it is civil parish, unparished. The central area of the town and the surrounding countryside contain 67 Listed building#England and Wa ...
References
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Grade II listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury
Museums in Greater Manchester
Transport museums in England
History of transport in Greater Manchester