Transperience was a short-lived
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical
History (derived ) is the systematic study and th ...
of passenger
transport
Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipel ...
located at
Low Moor, in the south of
Bradford in
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exis ...
,
Northern England
Northern England, also known as the North of England, the North Country, or simply the North, is the northern area of England. It broadly corresponds to the former borders of Angle Northumbria, the Anglo-Scandinavian Kingdom of Jorvik, and the ...
. 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
Low Moor railway station serves the villages of Low Moor and Oakenshaw in the south of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The station is situated on the Calder Valley Line between Bradford Interchange and Halifax.
The present station at ...
, (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
The Spen Valley Line (also known as the Mirfield and Low Moor railway) was a railway that connected with through the Spen Valley in West Yorkshire, England. Opened up by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847, with full opening to Low ...
towards
Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton is a town in the Metropolitan borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Bradford, east of Brighouse, west of Batley and south-west of Leeds. It is ...
, 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 trol ...
. 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 th
Dewsbury Bus Museum
Reopened station
The land formerly occupied by the museum is the site of the new
Low Moor railway station
Low Moor railway station serves the villages of Low Moor and Oakenshaw in the south of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The station is situated on the Calder Valley Line between Bradford Interchange and Halifax.
The present station at ...
.
References
Further reading
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External links
Lost Railways West Yorkshire- includes some photographs of the park whilst open and promotional literature
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Buildings and structures in Bradford
Museums in Bradford
Museums established in 1995
Defunct museums in England
Transport museums in England