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MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT TRUST

OUR EVENTS FOR 2025


SUNDAY 13th JULY - WEST LANCASHIRE CLASSIC BUS RUNNING DAY - a new event centred around Burscough, operated by ourselves.  Details will be posted nearer the day.


SUNDAY 14th SEPTEMBER - ANNUAL MTT RUNNING DAY somewhere in Merseyside.  Watch this space for further details.




OUTSIDE EVENTS THAT WE WILL BE SUPPORTING


FRIDAY 2nd to SUNDAY 4th MAY - We will be taking a bus to the LEYLAND NATIONAL event in WHITEHAVEN.  This year is LN53 with the theme "Nationalisation."


SUNDAY 18th MAY - MORECAMBE VINTAGE BUS RUNNING DAY & DISPLAY held by the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust at the Mazuma Stadium (Morecambe Football Club) and on the promenade, with buses running to Heysham and Carnforth.


SUNDAY 1st JUNE - NWVRT RUNNING DAY based in Kirkby.  We will be attending.


SUNDAY 20th JULY - LYTHAM HALL.  This year there won't be a display of vehicles at Lytham Hall, but up to a dozen buses will be operating in service between there and St Annes.


FRIDAY 10th - SUNDAY 12th OCTOBER - GLASGOW VINTAGE VEHICLE TRUST OPEN WEEKEND.  We will be attending.




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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!  

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 April 2025.