Established 1983

The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft was an idea first muted in 1968 when the a group of trolleybus enthusiasts from Reading and Doncaster got together in a house on Lonsdale Avenue at Intake in Doncaster to discus the offer of some land for sale on the former disused R.A.F. airfield at Sandtoft in what is now North Lincolnshire. The land available was part of the complex which had a hangar for servicing damaged aircraft such as Lancaster's and Halifax's during World War II.

Later after the war the hangar (similar to the one above) was used for the conversion of the Lancaster's and Halifax's for transporting essential supplies for the Berlin Airlift when Russia blockaded the city. I first saw the land when I did a tour of the area in 1967 with my Morris 1000 van the land then popular for learner drivers. I can remember learning to drive on the very land in 1964 using a friends Ford Popular.  My Morris 1000 van is standing on the area in 1967 where the hangar originally stood. The outcome of the meeting in Doncaster was that the land was purchased by the late Michael Dare a British Trolleybus Society member from Reading. Work started on building the first depot to house some of first trolleybuses (and one motorbus).

Poles were erected to support the overhead wires that the trolleybus require for the current collection. The first of the trolleybuses started arrive on site to be accommodated in the new depot building. Above the members of the Doncaster Omnibus & Light Railway Society make a start erecting the first of the metal traction poles. By December 1968 the first of the trolleybuses had arrived the last being Doncaster's last Trolleybus No 375.