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There are currently no operational trolleybus systems in the UK. In the United Kingdom the first trolleybus systems were inaugurated on 20 June 1911 [1] in Bradford and Leeds, although public service in Bradford did not commence until 24 June. [1] Coincidentally, the UK's last trolleybus service also operated in Bradford, on 26 March 1972. [1] [2]
Trolleybuses were built on AEC, Leyland and British United Traction (BUT) chassis. [9] Apart from the Diddlers and a few experimental vehicles, most London trolleybuses were near-identical. In 1941 and 1943 London Transport acquired 43 trolleybuses that had been ordered for South Africa but could not be shipped there because of the war. [10]
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The Bradford trolleybus system: being the history of Britain's first and last trolleybuses. Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK: West Riding Transport Society. ISBN 978-0-905043-00-5. Uden, M J (1971). Sixty years of Bradford Trolleybuses. Surrey, UK: National Trolleybus Association. ISBN 9781904474197. OCLC 219881275.
From 1912 Bolckow Vaughan was the main mover behind the North Ormesby, South Bank, Normanby and Grangetown Railless Traction Co., [4] which built a depot at Cargo Fleet, took power (until 1955 [4]) from the Bolckow Vaughan's (later Dorman Long) South Bank steel works, erected the first pole at Normanby in July 1915 and had the entire system ready 8 months later, but not the buses, which were ...
The Leeds trolleybus system served the West Riding of Yorkshire city of Leeds in England between 1911 and 1928. In May 2016, plans to construct a new system, the New Generation Transport (NGT) project, were refused approval from the UK Department for Transport , following a negative report from the planning inquiry.
The St Helens trolleybus system once served St Helens, Merseyside, north west England. Opened on 11 July 1927 ( 1927-07-11 ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it gradually replaced the St Helens tramway network . By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom , the St Helens system was a medium-sized one, with a total of six ...