Trolleybuses

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NancyNGA

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In the town close to where I grew up they had a trolleybus system, but they are long gone. I remember the sparks flying on the cables when we went shopping on the bus in town.

Do you still have them where you live now?

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No we don't not here in the London area and although I remember seeing them when I was tiny child in Scotland they were they were phased out around 1962 so I only have vague memories of them, but for many years we still had the tracks on man roads..

Just googled this picture of a rainy Glasgow probably in the 50's...and I'm so surprised to see the picture of this tram outside Fred Hills. the jewellers shop where I worked in the early 70's as a junior when I left school...by then of course there were no trams, no tram lines and everything was much more modern, but the shop was exactly the same!!


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They must still be around, because here is one of those "articulated" buses running on electric cables. And I think those are fairly recent (or maybe not :)). I don't know where this picture is from.

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Seems like it might be in the Netherlands, by Googling Connexxion.
 

As small children my sister and I stripped down and tried to board a trolley! Fortunately we hadn't wandered too far from home and our mother caught us. It was very entertaing for the driver and the passengers...
 
We had trolleybuses in South London up until the late 1950's. I loved the quietness and the superb acceleration they had. On my local route the buses were unique in having a shorter wheelbase in order to be able to climb a particularly steep hill up to Crystal Palace.
 
We had trolleys like this one where I lived when I was a young child.

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