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Welcome to the Wigan Transport Trust
website. On this site you'll find details of and links to the Trust's activities
and collection. The Trust's aims are the preservation, restoration and display
of Wigan's road public transport history, the focus being the period up to 1974
before the area was absorbed in to the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport
Executive. We do this by restoring our vehicles and displaying them at
rallies,
running days and similar events.
Collection
Our core collection comprises of former Wigan
Corporation vehicles and other items from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The collection
also includes later vehicles representative of public transport in Wigan up to
bus deregulation in 1986. We have former Wigan Corporation machines from Wigan
coach builders Massey and Northern Counties represented in the collection in
single deck, double deck, rear, front and dual door configurations on front, mid
and rear engined chassis, all from Leyland, who Wigan Corpy were loyal customers
of for almost as long as Leyland were making buses.
The collection is housed on a farm in West Lancashire near
Rufford and the purpose of this building is to provide a secure storage and
restoration environment for our vehicles. However due to the limitations of the
site we are not open to the public as a museum, although private visits can be
arranged. Instead we have adopted the "rolling museum" approach, and we
regularly take vehicles to events.
On the road
Our current vehicles on
the road are ex GMPTE Atlantean 8763 / A763NNA and ex MPTE National 6036 / UEM
36V. During winter 2011-12 our ex GMT Express Olympian 3253 / C253 FRJ has been
worked on and various parts for the restoration sourced.
At present we do not have a formal membership
scheme but if you are interested in volunteering please get in touch via the
contact
page. Or come and see us at a rally.
Rallies
On the subject of rallies; this is the outline plan for May to
July 2012. As usual subject to availability of vehicles, drivers and fuel on the
day and being accepted into the rallies by the organisers.
13 May - Potteries Transport Rally, Wedgwood Visitor Centre
20 May - North West vehicle Restoration Trust, Kirkby
10 June - Churnet Valley Bus Rally, Froghall station
24 June - Totally Transport, Blackpool
01 July - Wirksworth Classic Bus Rally
08 July - Keighley Festival of Transport
15 July - Tram Sunday, Fleetwood
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