PHIL HALEWOOD tells the story of the formation and growth of the North West Vehicle Restoration Trust, which plans to unveil some of its latest work at its postponed 2021 open day in Merseyside in September
The Liverpool city region is rather blessed with bus preservation groups, with four now well established on either side of theMersey.
The Wirral has the Birkenhead Transport Museum with a collection not only of buses from across the region, but also a short working electric tramway running between its Taylor Street garage and Woodside Ferry Terminal.
In St Helens, about ten miles due east of Liverpool, there’s the long-established North West Museum of Road Transport in Shaw Street, occupying the former corporation garage premises. North of the city, there is the equally long-established Merseyside Transport Trust, with its base in Burscough, near Southport.
In July 2011, the fourth name was added to this list, that of the North West Vehicle Restoration Trust (NWVRT). There was a clear demand then (as there still is today) for suitable locations to safely and securely store the ever-growing numbers of buses which were being saved for preservation.
With the arrival of legislation to outlaw the use of s…
