TRANSPORT Museum Wythall (TMW) has announced its programme of events for 2025.
The museum, on Chapel Lane, will see 11 themed event days including a green bus theme for London Comes To Wythall and a tribute to the West Midlands Municipals and their liveries prior to West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) days.
In 2024 around 18,000 visitors visited TMW.
With the cost-of-living crisis bearing down on family budgets, visitors were pleased to be offered a great value day out for all the family.
And this year the doors are set to open earlier on February 15.
The Museum is creating a new exhibition for the 2025 season looking at the design legacy of the 1950s – The New Look.
In 1947 Christian Dior presented his new fashion collection in Paris. The designs left behind wartime austerity and introduced light jackets with small waists and long voluminous skirts. The deliberately glamorous style chimed with the times and became famous as The New Look.
Soon the phrase The New Look was applied to anything that was radically styled or restyled – even buses.
This exhibition, which will open in April takes a ‘New Look’ at the changes that occurred 75 years ago through words, pictures and the buses on display.
In June TMW’s there is London Comes To Wythall Goes Green.
It will see London’s Green buses from the Green Line and London Country fleets alongside the museum’s green Routemaster RCL, which is celebrating its 60th birthday this year, and bosses hope it will be joined by several of its sisters that are also in preservation.
The museum will also make an appearance at BusFest@Gaydon in July.
A spokesperson for the museum said: “2025 sees a strong mix of themed event days alongside normal running days, in both cases free bus rides are included.
“Main Event days also see a number of visiting vehicles, the majority allied to the event theme itself.
“This year includes the return of the now well-established Bristol Owners Gathering when the Museum’s Bristol buses will mix with visiting examples, presenting the wide range of buses supplied by this well-known company, many of whose chassis were bodied by Eastern Coachworks.
“The sounds of fire engines, police cars and ambulances will ring out on the Emergency Services Day and of course, the year will end with Twilight Running Day.
“The traditional end of October rally brings an end to the running day season with a chance to ride on buses into the twilight now that the clocks have gone back.”
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