Transperience was a short-lived
museum
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of passenger
transport
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located at
Low Moor, in the south of
Bradford
Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdo ...
in
West Yorkshire
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,
Northern England
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. It opened in July 1995, but closed only 2 years later in October 1997, with debts of over £1 million.
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.
It included a tram line which made use of the trackbed of the
Spen Valley Line towards
Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton is a town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Bradford, east of Brighouse, west of Batley and so ...
, and visitors could ride on a
Hungarian tram or a
trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
. There was also a series of vehicle simulators and an auditorium.
The museum failed to attract the numbers of visitors hoped
and was closed in 1997.
The site today
The museum site was sold to a property developer in 1998 and is now an industrial estate. Some parts of the museum, such as the auditorium, still stand. A number of the vehicles in its collection have been sold to other collections, such as the
Keighley Bus Museum 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
Further reading
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External links
Lost Railways West Yorkshire- includes some photographs of the park whilst open and promotional literature
Dewsbury Bus Museum
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Buildings and structures in Bradford
Museums in Bradford
Museums established in 1995
Defunct museums in England
Transport museums in England