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]
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]
Future
The land formerly occupied by the museum is the site of the new Low Moor railway station which is due to open in May 2017.
References
- 1 2 3 Oldham, Nick (3 April 1998). "Where Transperience went off the rails". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
- ↑ "Probe call into £11.5 million Transperience investment". Telegraph & Argus. 6 July 1998. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
- ↑ Bolton, Humphrey (8 February 2010). "Auditorium of the former Transperience transport museum". Geograph. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
- ↑ http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/tahistory/featuresnostalgiapasttimes/10490961.End_of_the_road_for__dream_park_/?ref=arc
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.
External links
- Lost Railways West Yorkshire - includes some photographs of the park whilst open and promotional literature
Coordinates: 53°45′09″N 1°44′47″W / 53.7526°N 1.7463°W