Wirral Virtual Transport Museum

Wirral Virtual Transport Museum Wirral's Virtual Transport Museum encompassing all things transport related, whether or not there is a direct connection with the Wirral.

The real world Wirral Transport Museum was a working museum and most all of the completed motor vehicle projects were available to ride on during the course of each year, this is now not the case. There is also a large collection of bygone everyday items on display and a 27 foot model railway introduced by Bob Tennant who provided the original funding via bus funds and donation. The current lay-ou

t, which was much improved from the original is to the credit of John Harrison, who also introduced a miniature tramway. In 2014 a Community Trust took over the running of the actual Taylor Street venue and this page became disassociated with the actual operation and management of Wirral Transport Museum, changing it's name to Wirral Virtual Transport Museum.

The Library - between 1999 and 2014 many transport books were donated to the museum's research room.
19/09/2025

The Library - between 1999 and 2014 many transport books were donated to the museum's research room.

About a month before Birkenhead Corporation started operating buses (12th July 1919) this photo appeared in the Birkenhe...
19/09/2025

About a month before Birkenhead Corporation started operating buses (12th July 1919) this photo appeared in the Birkenhead News & Advertiser. As can be read in the description below it, I naughty boy had disengaged the vehicles handbrake. The vehicle being parked on Charing Cross, proceeded to roll down towards and then along the top of Exmouth Street, eventually colliding with the exterior wall of the Music Hall public house. The bus was engaged on a daily duty, running from the Cross to Seacombe and was operated from a transport company based opposite Duke Street Station.

100 years ago and a photo of Birkenhead Corporation's first new double deck buses in 1925, with a Birkenhead News write-...
24/02/2025

100 years ago and a photo of Birkenhead Corporation's first new double deck buses in 1925, with a Birkenhead News write-up. Just three years later in 1928, bus design had really move forward. Within twelve months the rear open stairs would be enclosed and that became the preferred standard design for fourty years.

05/02/2025
The model Railway. The original lay-out was bought from a Chester model railway club. The base depicted Mostyn Docks but...
24/01/2025

The model Railway. The original lay-out was bought from a Chester model railway club. The base depicted Mostyn Docks but over time was enlarged and altered by John Harrison. Much of the model rolling stock was given by John or donated to him. Likewise, many of the road models were donated with some being bought by me. The model railway was a big hit with hundreds of thousands of visiting school children between 2001 and 2013. For them to be able to see in miniature the world as it had been some 50+ years before their time, a world that their grandparents had grown up in was a history lesson in itself, and a moving history at that. There is a great imbalance in the Art world, pictures showing how life was is all very well, but a diorama is a three-dimensional model that replicates a scene. Dioramas can be full-sized or miniature, and are often used to illustrate a story, academic subject, or historical event. They can be found in museums or created by hobbyists or students. When a diorama is presented in the form of a working model, using scaled down vehicles and machines, it becomes an especially important tool in teaching our cultures past history, sadly to many 'academics' lose the imaginations of our students by not recognising the impact a working model layout can have on the young mind.

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18/08/2024

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Something a bit different. This film tracks the progress of a young be-quiffed man with aspirations to be a Ford service centre receptionist. It shows his pr...

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24/07/2024

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This delightful Daimler CVG6 with Northern Counties double-deck, centre door bodywork is a unique survivor, so let's take it for a drive!It began life with t...

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