Bus Museum Open Days in the UK

Most bus museums are volunteer-run and open on set days, and an open day is when they get the fleet out. Instead of a quiet shed you get vehicles moving, visiting buses from other collections, a free service to the nearest station or town centre, and someone in the workshop happy to show you what a Gardner engine looks like in bits.

The London Bus Museum at Brooklands holds its Spring Gathering in April. The London Transport Museum Depot at Acton opens a handful of weekends a year and holds the reserve collection, which is the one to see if you like the stuff that never makes it into the main museum. The Oxford Bus Museum sits next to Hanborough station, so it works as a train day out. Wythall near Birmingham runs buses and trolleybuses on site, Lathalmond near Dunfermline is the biggest collection in Scotland, and East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville runs buses, trams and trolleybuses on one site.

Entry is usually £5 to £12 with rides included and children often free. If you want moving buses on an ordinary weekend instead, Beamish and the Black Country Living Museum run heritage services most days they are open.