Grampian Transport Museum

Coordinates: 57°14′00″N 2°42′06″W / 57.2333182°N 2.701706°W / 57.2333182; -2.701706

Entrance to the Grampian Transport Museum

1895 Craigievar Express in the Grampian Transport Museum

Andrew Barclay Aberdeen Corporation Gasworks No.3 locomotive on display at the museum

Stanley Steam car running in the Alford Cavalcade at the Grampian Transport Museum

Grampian Transport Museum is a transport museum and charitable-based trust located in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Follow the history of transport in the north east of Scotland through dramatic displays, working and climb aboard vehicle exhibits and video presentations.

History[edit]

The museum was formed after a group of local transport enthusiasts and collectors in the early 1970s sought to develop a local transport museum. In 1978, the group held a public meeting at which, after an offer was made to lease the former goods yard to the north of the former Alford railway station, the Grampian Transport Museum Association was formed. A pilot museum was established in a local factory in 1981, and after the first annual Alford Cavalcade vintage vehicle rally held during July, a combination of local councils offered grants and subsidies to establish a permanent exhibition base. Construction work on the current building was completed in September 1982, and the museum opened in April 1983. An extension was completed in 1998, landscaping and a track added in the early 2000s, and a second building, the Collections Centre, to house larger exhibits in the 2010s. In 2016, the museum completed a new reception extension to improve the frontage of the museum and provide a warm welcome to its visitors.^[1]

Exhibition[edit]

Major exhibits include the world's oldest Sentinel Steam Waggon from 1914 and a giant Mack Snowplow. Exhibits include historic and classic automobiles, motorcycles, a double-decker bus, bicycles, steam vehicles, an electric tram, toy model vehicles, and transport memorabilia.

References[edit]

^ http://www.gtm.org.uk/welcome/about-gtm/

External links[edit]

Official Website

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