History of the transport discovery park:

March 1983 - West Yorkshire County Council officials gather on disused railway land in Low Moor to unveil a £15 million blueprint for the museum.

1986 - West Yorkshire County Council closes but leaves £1m in trust to get the scheme started.

1987 - Consultants announce the plan - on 27 acres with an electrified Spen Valley tramway, hotel and leisure facilities - is too grandiose to be viable.

1990 - £15m blueprint for the site unveiled by developers.

1991 - Cost of project goes up to £20m, but developers say there is interest by companies interested in shops and the hotel.

1992 - Government minister Tim Eggar rides into Low Moor on top of a double decker bus to announce an £8m grant for the plan.

1994 - West Yorkshire Transport Trust puts Ludlam Street base on market to fund the museum. Work begins on Transperience, which now costs £11.5m on a smaller scale.

July 1995 - Transperience is officially opened.

July 1996 - Survival package announced up after the park fails to attract half the 200,000 visitors expected in its first year.

February 1997 - Administrator appointed and a rescue package is drawn up - including a new £25,000 miniature railway.

September 1997 - Announcement that the park is to be scaled down and renamed.

March 1998 - Speculation that Transperience will not reopen as planned. Three buyers interested in the site.

Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.