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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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 😉
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!!
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
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.
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.
what a time machine this is loved every sec thank you for posting
It seems strange today to think that we scrapped the clean, quiet, efficient trolley bus for dirty, noisy, gas guzzling diesel buses..
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
Remember them going along Elswick Road through Benwell and turning at Deleval Road when I was a lad.
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 😉
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!!
Ditching the trolley buses was short-sighted, even at the time. I bet they wish they had them now!
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
The days when Newcastle had a REAL public transport system.
I just sbout remember them ,certainly yellow buses in general .I also recsll the overhead cables
Brilliant film
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.
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"?
The bravest pedestrians come from Newcastle O T
Do you have any footage from Heaton Road. Also, how did you digitise the footage?