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BEER & BUSES - SATURDAY 13th APRIL 2024


12.00 noon until 5.00 pm


Frequent preserved bus service from Burscough to more than a dozen pubs serving REAL ALE!


Buses depart regularly from near Burscough Station.


Connecting buses will operate from Leyland, Ormskirk, Preston and Southport.


For more details, please use this link to visit our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/people/Lancashire-Beer-and-Buses/61555175526880/?locale=en_GB

EVENTS

We are making plans for 2024 - details will be published on this page as soon as they are finalised but, in the meantime, put these dates in your diary:

SATURDAY 13th APRIL - "Beer & Buses" (see above)

SUNDAY 14th JULY - Open Day at Burscough

SUNDAY 8th SEPTEMBER - Running Day, probably in Liverpool.

We will also be taking some of our buses to events organised by other groups - WATCH THIS SPACE!


NOTICE FOR PAID-UP MEMBERS (ONLY!)

The Annual General Meeting will take place on SATURDAY 23rd MARCH 2024 at 10.30 a.m. in Burscough Methodist Church, Orrell Lane, L40 0SG.  Further details, including a bus from the Trust's premises, will be sent to all paid-up members.  Please note: THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC EVENT.


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JOIN THE MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT TRUST

Details of how to join us (or renew your membership) are on the "Membership" page of this website. All members receive a superb quarterly newsletter, although it has grown to be more like a paperback book in recent years!  Most Saturdays (and Tuesday evenings) members will be working on maintaining and restoring our fleet of buses.  If you don't mind getting your hands dirty, you will be made very welcome!

Existing members are reminded that your membership was due for renewal on 1st January 2024.


HISTORY OF THE MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT TRUST

The Merseyside Transport Trust (MTT) was set up on 1st May 1999 to bring together people with a common interest in saving, restoring and preserving historic vehicles and associated items from the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, its constituent corporation fleets and other operators within the Merseyside Area, so that former passengers and the general public will remember them and be able to look back on them. In addition, future generations will have an opportunity to learn about the historic development of the design of buses in the Merseyside area over the years, and to understand and appreciate, as part of the educational process, the predecessors of the vehicles that they come to use or observe on a daily basis. The MTT inherited a number of vehicles, spares and other transport related memorabilia along with the use of three of the four old aircraft hangers that the M&CBPG rented on the disused airfield at Burscough in West Lancashire, approximately 15 miles north of Liverpool. We have since moved into superb new premises adjacent to the airfield, where our annual open day now takes place.


BUS HIRE

We receive many enquiries about hiring buses for weddings and events.  Unfortunately, as we are a charity concerned with vehicle preservation, all our buses are historic items.  We do not hold an Operator's Licence, and therefore cannot use any of our buses to carry passengers for hire or reward - sorry!  But the Merseyside Transport Trust has supplied buses for the film & television industry for a number of years. We can help for appearance work, especially in film, TV and exhibitions.  We have vehicles that are historically accurate from the 1940s to the 1980s - so if your street scene requires a bus, then we can help.  Items from our collection can be available with sufficient notice.  Even some of our smaller objects can be hired as props - maybe you need to place that street conversation scene at a 1950s Liverpool bus stop, or you need a bus just in the background, maybe your bus conductor needs a ticket machine from that era?  For all your hire or appearance requirements please   contact us.


This website was updated on 25th February 2024

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