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Fantastic footage! The quality is very good! All the best from the tram city of Bremen/Germany

Do you have any footage from Heaton Road. Also, how did you digitise the footage?

Newcastle-upon-Tyne had electric vehicles before anyone thought of saving the planet. Just goes to show how advanced tyneside was, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was 1st city to have gas lighting, built worlds 1st turbine, ànd Gateshead invented electric light. Edison tried to sue Mr Swan, but he proved he was 4 years earlier. YANKS CRYING IN THEIR SOUP AGAIN,

The bravest pedestrians come from Newcastle O T

What a joy. Remember them well predominantly on routes 31, 33,39/40. While glad to see the back of them at the time, logging the arrival of every batch of Atlanteans with keen interest, have tried to catch up with one or other of I believe only two surviving but have only managed a glimpse of one in a shed at Beamish and later likewise at Lowestoft

I remember travelling on the trolley buses in Newcastle with my mother when I was a small boy and they would have been the perfect mode of transport for today . . . they never should have got rid of them.

I just sbout remember them ,certainly yellow buses in general .I also recsll the overhead cables

The days when Newcastle had a REAL public transport system.

All the beautiful architecture thats gone 😢😢 great video tho ❤🖤 ⚪

A fabulous piece of film. I grew up in 1960's Sheffield. The fire scene is interesting in the sense that today, the whole street would be sealed off by the police, but back then it seems the fire engines were parked up with little police presence and life carried on going by.

This is Sheffield..the Garage at 2:22 was called Woodseats Motors and my Dad was Manager there

As a bairn I jumped off one of these trolley busses on Byker bridge, i got on at the bus stop at the bottom of Shields road but my mum didn't, I panicked and jumped off, good job it was going slow🤣 the cliippy was not impressed. Got a right telling off by my mum. Good old days me thinks.

Actually I found the Trolleybuses to be cold and dingy in the wintertime. I remember me and my pal were overjoyed when a new warm, bright Atlantean bus showed up on our trip along the West Road back in the 60's... Yet nowadays everyone is switching back to electric vehicles.

Real people movers with silence. I so wanted to drive one of these when I was younger. Every Saturday New bridge street to Potts Street to visit Grandma & Granda. Very sad to see them go!!

I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on that Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. Why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more and more Easily? Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build a brand-new underground train station so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train stations in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!!!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

My Dad is almost certainly driving one of those trolley buses and my Mam is almost certainly a clippie on one as well. They were on a few of those routes, based out of Slatyford depot. My Dad drove for Newcastle Corporation then the PTE between 1959 and 1975. As much as my eyes strain I can’t make out any driver’s face and I knew quite a few of them!

Not very diverse.! Probably low crime too .

I know they had to go but I loved the trolley buses

It seems strange today to think that we scrapped the clean, quiet, efficient trolley bus for dirty, noisy, gas guzzling diesel buses..

Seems strange today to think that we scrapped the trolley bus in favour of diesel...

Ditching the trolley buses was short-sighted, even at the time. I bet they wish they had them now!

I was a wee bairn when we had the trolly buses , open back freezing in winter, and people could run for the bus when it was moving and it was fine ,but today the bus drivers see u in rear view mirror and take off 😉

what a time machine this is loved every sec thank you for posting

Remember them going along Elswick Road through Benwell and turning at Deleval Road when I was a lad.

I would like to ask the current city council chief's what someone once asked the great George Best - "where did it all go wrong"?

I’ve driven one of the ex-Bournemouth MF2Bs (297) at the Black Country Living Museum.

Much better busses, no gear changing meant a smoother ride and much quieter too. Why on earth did they dump them.

What an absolutely terrific video. I was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire in 1946 and I travelled on both the Bradford and Huddersfield systems many times. But very sadly by the time I made my first visit to Newcastle all the trolleybuses had gone. And that fabulous yellow livery was so distinctive. I live in London and I see nothing but red. Oh dear.

Brilliant film

in winter when it snowed the sparks from the overhead made the snow flakes look green....they were pretty cold and I'd wait for a diesel bus as in the early sixties they'd started cutting heaters under the second row of seats upstairs.

I only see white people. Lots of them. Aren't lefties telling today's children that uk was always diverse

They were the best ride, so smooth no gear changing, why they got rid of them I’ll never no, I doubt they do either, some lobbying arse hole I expect.

I lived in Wideopen as a child in the 1950s. To get into town we would walk down to the Trolley terminal at Gosforth Park where there was a big turning circle.

penny half to Potts Street Byker please, value for money, 3 old pennies equal 1 new pence jump on jump off class. mint cine

Just like all the rest good going

Good footage, Alastair! The first ten minutes are duplicated. Do you have other video that could be slotted in?

It says Newcastle Trollybuses. Which other operators did you expect.

Blackpool was the only town that didn't trow out their trams in the 50's and 60's.

Great .like another world 🌎

Great nostalgia

Fantastic film of a by gone age. Love the Hull footage was born there and can just remember them on Holderness Road. Many thanks for posting.

Title seems wrong. All the footage is of Newcastle trolleys. Nothing wrong with that, but if you were expecting to see other operators you'll be disappointed

Been looking for this type of thing for ages, quality video mate, keep up the good work!

Superb film, many thanks. Don't understand why it didn't get more 'likes' But again, thanks so much for posting

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Quality footage, thanks for uploading. I recognise the London and the Bournemouth trolleys, can anyone give information as to the other locations? Thanks!

The scenes from Bournemouth, at the very end of the video, are of the final day 20.04.1969.