Transperience

Transperience was a short-lived museum of passenger transport located at Low Moor, in the south of Bradford in West Yorkshire, Northern England. It opened in July 1995, but closed only 2 years later in October 1997, with debts of over £1 million.^[1]

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 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] or the Dewsbury Bus Museum.

The land formerly occupied by the museum is the site of the new Low Moor railway station.^[5]

• "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.

• Lost Railways West Yorkshire - includes some photographs of the park whilst open and promotional literature
• Dewsbury Bus Museum

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