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Dover Transport Museum – A celebration of Dover’s trams and East Kent buses.

Port Zone, Willingdon Road, Whitfield, Dover, Kent, CT16 2JX

  • 06 Sep 2024
  • In person
  • Pre-booking required

Enjoy an illustrated talk on Dover’s once famous tram system, visit our East Kent Road Car Co. exhibition and access unseen EK Bus archive material and photographs. All inside the fascinating Dover Transport Museum with its old Dover street scenes

On arrival visitors will be accommodated in the museum café where refreshments will be available and a 35 minute illustrated talk on Dover Corporation’s 1897-1936 tram system will be given. A brief introduction to the East Kent Road Car Co. history will be given followed by a visit to the EKRC Co. exhibition at the museum. Access will then be given to unseen archive material such as voluminous press records relating to the company, the bus accidents register, a complete collection of the company’s in house journals, bus related ephemera from the museum’s collection and many hundreds of photographs. Visitors will have free access to the rest of the museum for the duration of their time slot.

Timings & Tours

Friday 06 September:
10:30-12:30 and 13:30-15:30

Location & directions

Port Zone, Willingdon Road, Whitfield, Dover, Kent, CT16 2JX

Contact on day:
Brian Flood
Telephone number:
+447511794798

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking required
Booking conditions:
Applications for tickets on a first come first served basis can be made via email: [email protected] Tickets will be sent electronically.
Booking contact name:
Dover Transport Musuem
Booking email:
[email protected]
Booking opens:
08 Jul 2024 12:00 AM
Booking closes:
05 Sep 2024 12:00 AM

Accessibility details

The venue for the talk is not wheelchair accessible. The rest of the event and the museum is.

Additional information

Max no of people per tour:
30
Est. tour duration:
2 hour(s) 0 minute(s)

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