Transperience
Transperience was a short-lived museum of passenger transport located at Low Moor, in the south of Bradford, England. It opened in July 1995, but closed only 2 years later in October 1997, with debts of over £1 million.[1]
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[edit] 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 kilometre (1,100 yd) 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Future
The land used by the museum is likely to go full circle, as Metro plans to re-open Low Moor station to passenger use in 2012.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Oldham, Nick (1998-04-03). "Where Transperience went off the rails". Telegraph & Argus. http://archive.thisisbradford.co.uk/1998/4/3/176349.html. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
- ^ "Probe call into £11.5 million Transperience investment". Telegraph & Argus. 1998-07-06. http://archive.ilkleygazette.co.uk/1998/7/6/173694.html. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
- ^ Bolton, Humphrey (2010-02-08). "Auditorium of the former Transperience transport museum". Geograph. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1699972. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
[edit] External links
- Lost Railways West Yorkshire - includes some photographs of the park whilst open and promotional literature
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