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Open Days

A full list of Open Days can be found at the Museum's official web site.

Events are usually held at the following times of year:

• Easter Weekend: Easter Day and Easter Monday
• May Day Bank Holiday Weekend: Sunday and Monday
• Spring Bank Holiday Weekend: Sunday and Monday
• Sandtoft Gathering Weekend: the last Sunday in July and the preceding Saturday
• August Bank Holiday Weekend: Sunday and Monday
• Santa Specials: two Sundays in December

On most of these dates there is a special free bus service from Doncaster. The bus usually picks up in West Street, near Doncaster railway station, in the early afternoon (usually about 1.30 p.m.). The return journey leaves Sandtoft at about 4.30 pm, and the journey takes about 30 minutes. A much more frequent service operates on Gathering Day.

Visitors by car should use the M180 to Junction 2, then follow signposts through Belton to the free car park.

Please check before travelling! Telephone the 24 hour information line on 01724 711391, or visit the official Sandtoft website.

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In this picture you can see the booms being raised to make contact with the trolley wires. The vehicle is Huddersfield 631 (Sunbeam S7A with East Lancs bodywork), standing outside the Museum's main shed. Note the two rear axles, a typical feature of trolleybuses - many of them were built at a time when Construction and Use Regulations required any vehicles of this length to have three axles.

Photo: Alison Wilson
 
 
 

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Sandtoft Gathering

The biggest annual event at Sandtoft is the "Gathering" when restored buses travel to Sandtoft from all over Britain. They take part in a Rally which begins in Doncaster and ends at the Museum.

The Gathering takes place on the last Sunday in July each year, from 10 am to 6 pm. Nearly everything at the Centre is running or at least on display. There are frequent Tours of the Isle of Axholme in vintage buses, and there's a free half-hourly bus service between Doncaster and the Museum.

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Other bus and trolleybus sites to visit:

The official Sandtoft Transport Museum site

The official Sandtoft Miniature Railway site

Erik Regeling's Trolley en Diesel Site (in Dutch but lots of photos)
David Bradley's Croydon and London Trolleybuses site
Franz Oberlechner's Zürich and Winterthur Trolleybuses site
Franz Oberlechner's Salzburg Trolleybuses site
Dick Gilbert's Classic Buses
Roger Hardy's British Buses of the 1960s
The British Trolleybuses web site
Chesterfield 123 Preservation Group
Doncaster Omnibus and Light Railway Society (DOLRS)
Ipswich Transport Museum
Sheffield Bus Museum
Nova Home Video - producers of bus, train, tram and trolleybus DVDs
Classic Motor Monthly - Classic, Vintage & Veteran Road Transport Museums in the U.K.
List of Museums in the UK
Model Buses Magazine
John Hinson's Old Bus Garage for vintage vehicles
Trolleybuses in Wellington, New Zealand
Happy Harold and the Hastings Trolleybus Restoration Group
Scottish Vintage Bus Museum
Enjoy Britain - the gateway to Britain's tourist attractions
Transport Diversions - the Internet Retailer of Transport Books & Videos.
TrainNet's International Railway Links page for more railway sites.

And for thousands of bus sites world-wide, just go to The Bus Station or to Bus Web.