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Riverside Transport Museum

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The Glasgow Museum of Transport has been moved into a purpose built building on the Clyde Riverside. Follow brown signs for the SECC and Riverside Museum and yellow Tall Ship signs.
The total cost of the move has been quoted at £74 million, the results are certainly impressive.

There are 2 machines from UK Penny Press, these are actually machines from PennyPressFactory. The pennies from these machines have a distinctive ring border, each cost £2 and are now card payments only .

Design details.

Machine 1 is upstairs
1) ...Montana Pram ...
2) ...Penny farthing cycle ...
3) ...Harley Davidson motorbike 1929

Machine 3 ground floor next to toilets
1) ...Porsche 911 Carrera Turbo, 1988 ...
2) ...Raleigh Chopper cycle ...
3) ...Outline img of museum, Zaha Hadid design ...
4) ...HMS Queen Mary ...

Machine details uploaded, David miller, UKPennies.co.uk

Retired Machine/ Designs:

Retired 2: 1) Riverside Logo, 2) Locomotive 007, 3) Albion Venturer Bus, 4) Cunarder Tram ...
Retired from Machine 1: Riverside logo

22nd Nov 2025 Was only one machine working & it was upstairs with only 3 out of the 4 designs available ( Penny Farthing Cycle, Motor Bike & Pram) Downstairs machine next to the gents toilet was out of order. S Shand

5th July 2026 machine 1 upstairs couldn't be found (asked staff and they were unsure), retired 2 was upstairs with all 4 designs. Machine 3 was downstairs with all 4 designs, they are now card payment only at a cost of £2 per penny.

Machines and designs

4 machines
MachineDesignsCoin type
Machine 1 - Upstairs3Penny
Machine 3 - Ground Floor 14Penny
Retired 2?Penny
Retired from Machine 1??Penny

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