The Canberra Transport Museum held it’s first post-covid tour on Saturday November 12th, 2022. The QCIty Tour was a good opportunity to take out a wide variety of the Queanbeyan depot fleet, some of which are fast approaching their withdrawal. Vehicles included an Irisbus Agoraline, 0405NH, Volvo Double Decker, MAN Read more…
The Canberra Transport Museum will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Sunday September 18 2022 at 16:00. The meeting will be held at Yass Railway Museum, 3 Crago st, Yass. In recognition of the distance from Canberra we will be arranging a bus from Woden Interchange, departing platform one Read more…
The CTM has acquired a Volvo B10B “BOB” with the intention for it to become our first museum site! Over the coming year we will be fitting out the interior of the bus with memorabilia, displays, signs and other interesting displays so that we can take our museum on the Read more…
Following on from the CTM’s participation in the 2021 Rise Above Cancer Convoy on 14th March 2021, we held a short afternoon tour around Canberra in BUS 717, a recently acquired Renault PR180.2. Joining us as a late surprise on the tour was BUS 967 ‘Rexy’, a Renault PR100.2 MK2. Read more…
On Sunday 5th May, 2019, the CTM held it’s second tour for the weekend, the QCity Tour. The day consisted of taking multiple different vehicles out for short trips around Queanbeyan and Jerrabomberra and travelling to various scenic locations on the QCity network. The best part of the day was Read more…
In early February 2021, ABC Radio Canberra Breakfast host Lish Fejer joined the CTM out in Yass for morning tea to talk to us about what the CTM is. Museum members took part in a casual interview and eagerly answered Lish’s inquisitive questions about who we are and what we Read more…
By Jasper Lindell Updated February 7 2021 – 3:56pm, first published 3:30am https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7115037/next-stop-a-site-for-canberras-new-bus-museum/ Museum treasurer Brock Ginman, presidet Zac Mathes, director Joshua Cox, and members representative John Tokaji with some of the ex-ACTION buses, currently parked in a yard in Yass, they’ll be restoring to their former glory for a new museum site. Read more…
On March 14 2021, the Canberra Transport Museum partook in the 2021 Rise Above Cancer Convoy. On the same day after the convoy, CTM conducted a short tour around Central Canberra, tracing several former bus routes. For these events, the museum was represented by PR180.2 BUS 717 and PR100.2 BUS Read more…
On Saturday May 4, 2019 the Canberra Transport Museum held a tour to farewell the Dennis Dart SLF midi bus, as it exited service after 22 years in the Transport Canberra (ACTION) fleet. Around 40 participants joined the tour as we took two Dennis Darts (BUS135 and BUS145), supplied by Read more…