Category Archives: Wythall Transport Museum

That’s it for 2014

Our tours are over now for this year! Our Outer Circle Tours were great – we even had a sunny day for the one on the 26th of September – most unusual – we normally have drizzle! We’ve counted up … Continue reading

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Another Great Day in the Cotswolds

We all had another great day in the Cotswolds on the 17th of June. Our Historic Bus Tour took our usual route from Wythall through Alcester and plenty of Costwolds villages on our way to Cheltenham Racecourse Station on our … Continue reading

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Tours for 2014

GOOD NEWS! We’ve arranged our tours for 2014. Following our successful formats from previous years our tours have been arranged as follows: Tuesday 17th June – “Cotswolds” Friday 19th September – Outer Circle In June, the Midland Red single deck … Continue reading

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Two great days out on the Outer Circle

We all had two great days out on the Outer Circle in September. The bus (2976) was ready and in fine form, we had a great crew, fabulous weather and very generous passengers. Thanks to our passenger Nigel Collingwood we … Continue reading

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A sight to behold!

On August 26th The Transport Museum at Wythall organised a cavalcade of Birmingham City Transport “New Look” double deck buses from the 1950s to travel from the Event Day at the museum to Kings Heath, then along the Outer Circle … Continue reading

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All aboard the Blue & Cream

The Transport Museum at Wythall is celebrating one hundred years of motor bus operation in Birmingham by running a fleet of Blue & Cream BCT buses from the event day at the museum on Monday the 26th of August to the … Continue reading

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All Aboard – the Outer Circle

In September we are planning two opportunities to ride around Birmingham’s famous Outer Circle bus route – the Number 11. With the help of the Transport Museum at Wythall we are using a 1953 Birmingham City Transport double deck bus … Continue reading

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A “Rotary” tour of the Cotswolds

On the 9th of July we conducted a “bespoke” version of our Cotswolds  Tour for the Halesowen Rotary. As usual we set off from The Transport Museum at Wythall and went to the Rotary International Great Britain & Ireland offices … Continue reading

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Another Great Day Out in the Cotswolds

Once again we took the 1963 Midland Red Bus 5545 from Wythall Transport Museum to the Cotswolds with another band of happy travellers. Our tour on the 25th of June was enhanced by sunshine virtually all the day. Thankfully a … Continue reading

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Our Charity Donations for 2012

As our Historic Bus Tours for 2012 have been completed we’ve made our final donation to charity. During the year, with the generous help of our passengers, we first gave £40.00 to St Mary’s Hospice in Birmingham, who were our … Continue reading

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