Bradford's Trolleybuses: A Legacy of Clean, Efficient Transportation
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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Remembering Our Bradford Trolleybuses
"The Bradford trolleybus system served the city of Bradford, Yorkshire, England for much of the 20th century. It was one of the first two trolleybus systems to be opened in the United Kingdom, along with the Leeds system.
Both systems commenced operations on 20 June 1911. However, the public service on the Bradford system did not start until four days later. The Bradford system lasted the longest of all of the UK's urban trolleybus systems. Having been one of the first two such systems to open, it was also the last one to close, on 26 March 1972. Just before its closure, it was also the longest-lived surviving trolleybus system in the world, but with the Bradford closure, that distinction passed to the Shanghai, China, trolleybus system, which opened in 1914." ( Wikipedia )
The bus at the end of this film is not in Bradford, but was part of the film reel, and has been left in. It's the last 248 route with RLH buses in Upminster.
A film by Brian Maquire
Digitized by Andrew Wingrove - 8mm2digital.com
Music: Passing Time - Kevin MacLeod
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A terrific video which brings back so many memories to me. I left school sixty years ago in 1962 and my first job was with Bradford City Transport as a clerk in their traffic department at their head office in Forster Square.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Great clip.I remember the times and people and shops etc. I kept looking also hoping that i might see my dad who was a driver until 1970 thanks.
And another thing, what are all these funny things the trolley is passing? Oh yes, shops and banks. I remember those. What the hell happened?
I was a student at the Infirmary and used use the trolleys daily. I caught one on their last day of service which was a Saturday. I also remember x-raying patients from a trolleybus accident when I understand one was rolled on its side at the Thornton terminus.
What an excellent choice of background music - quite wistful and wholly appropriate for the demise of this excellent system I well remember into my teens.
Fantastic film
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Have now..cheers
I know it's the 50th Anniversary this year of the last running of the trolley buses in Bradford West Yorkshire. The film is good
The fifty years did not occur to me when I upload this film, thank you for the reminder.
splendid
Great film, never understood why they got rid of them, in Europe there are modern systems all over the place, such a shame but a good film anyway 😅
Thank you very much for this upload.
You're welcome
Shame about the London buses at the end but I recognised many places in & around Bradford. Thornbury depot on leeds road, city centre thornton road st georges hall sunbridge road & duckworth lane. All early seventies when I was a small boy!!!
An excellent film - and some ! Many thanks. I spent many hours on the Bradford system just prior to closure. The red AEC Regent buses are they ex-LT buses? Curious about the bus at 8:50. Is it an ex-LT AEC RT or RM (Routemaster ??). A lot of London buses were sold off to other operators at the end of the working lives in the Smoke. Replies appreciated !
Thank you. The red bus at the end, its the last 248 route with RLH buses in Upminster. Should not have been included in this film, but it was on the end of the Bradford reel.
I remember the Bradford trolleys and also seeing the familiar sight (to my London Transport eyes) of RTs in the attractive blue. I did not see, but remember reading at the time when open balcony tram (was it 104?) was let out of the trolleybus depot, using the positive wire, to run a short distance on the extant tracks. It carried the destination Stanningly, I recall.
They look rather nice, nice colour , compact, well designed. Glasgow trolleybuses were awful, they were huge, much bigger than buses and always seemed tinny rattly and cold inside. Never popular
Nice film , I don't no why they got rid of them, many european countries have kept and modernised theirs, it amazes me how the trolley poles stay on the spiders web junctions.
The low bridge red 'bus looks remarkably similar to the RLH lowbridge (red and green) ones of London Transport, with Eastern Coachworks bodies. They looked somewhat unattractive compared with the LT-designed vehicles, but they did their low bridge jobs well enough.