www.facebook.com/birminghammail/posts/10151934114901199
Facebook discussion about Birmingham Evening Mail article, including a link to the article entitled: “All aboard: Wolverhampton bus bungalow is just the ticket at Birmingham auction”
Blues and Twos weekend http://youtu.be/q9qEiUurw5U
A short video of the “Blues and Twos” activities, filmed using a head-cam by fire-fighter Chris Howarth
News Round-up: “On the Yorkshire Buses” on Channel 5 http://www.channel5.com/shows/on-the-yorkshire-buses/episodes/episode-5-491
Link to Episode 5 – with footage of the Trolleybus Museum and Miles Cartwright driving Doncaster 22 to the Big Bus Day in Hull.
(This sequence starts approximately 20 minutes into the programme) The Restoration of Ipswich 105 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=287504464744733
A short video, courtesy of Ipswich Transport Museum Chairman Mark Smith, of 105's first “power up” on 5 April 2014 at East Anglia Transport Museum, following many years of hard work in restoration. An exciting and proud moment for all involved - the vehicle was last driven under its own power in Ipswich in 1962.
July 2014
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April 2014
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YouTube video - "Glasgow Memories" - films of trolleys and trams in old Glasgow
Three short films, including one from 1966 with trolleybuses running between Gorbals and the City Centre.
The Trolley-bus and Shavarsh Karapetyan
An extraordinary incident in Armenia in 1976 when a trolleybus toppled off a bridge into Yerevan Lake. A champion swimmer dived in and rescued many of the trapped passengers. Click here for article 1 and click here for article 2
A trolleybus relic in Belfast
A surviving traction pole in Belfast, where the last trolleybuses ran in 1968.Click Here
"World's worst drivers" video clip
Recorded in a Russian city when a broken-down car gets attached to the back of a trolleybus, in an attempt to get it started. Click Here
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YouTube video of Gathering 2013
October 2013
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July 2013
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Sandtoft Scene 90 - Doncaster 375 Restoration
For more photographs of this project visit Bob Ashton’s Facebook page entitled: “The Restoration of Doncaster’s last trolleybus”. Please note that you will need access to Facebook to view this page.
Oxford Street trolleybus proposal
An article in the London Evening Standard on 18 December 2012 Click here to read
Sandtoft Scene 89 - Trolleys on the Web
“Going by Trolleybus: Marzahn as it once was”
10 images of trolleybuses on a rural part of the East Berlin system, in an album on the web site of German rail enthusiasts’ site “Drehsheibe” (or “Turntable”) http://www.drehscheibe-foren.de/foren/read.php?17,6243372 (paste into your browser - don’t click on the link - to avoid truncating the URL at the comma.
Walsall Trolleybuses - A film by Barry Coward
This video is compiled from 16mm film and 35mm slides shot by Barry Coward between 1967 and 1970.
Bradford Trolleybus Dewirement in 1972 – by John Fozard
Bradford 846 receives assistance from the overhead crew after a dewirement in the vicinity of Four Lane Ends. The 1972 working procedures seen in this video definitely fall well below today’s health and safety criteria.
Recording of “The Trolleybus Lament” by Jim Jarratt (performed live at Sandtoft on the London 1348 Donors’ Day (27 October 2012)
October 2012
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July 2012
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Sandtoft Scene 86 - Trolleybuses on the Web
The London Closure commemorations at Carlton Colville and Fulwell Depot have been extensively recorded, and a selection of videos and slideshows are available below:
London Trolleybus 50 at EATM Carlton Colville
A full hour showing the atmosphere involving the operation of eight preserved London trolleybuses (1, 260, 796,1201,1521,1348,1768 and 1812) at the East Anglia Transport Museum, culminating in the running together of the first and last London trolleybuses.
London Trolleybus 50 at EATM Carlton Colville
London trolleybus 1348 made its public debut at the East Anglia Transport Museum over the 2012 May bank holiday weekend. Then on Tuesday 8 May, exactly fifty years after the last day of operation in London, 1348 joined with other London trolleybuses in a full day of activity.
Trolleybus 50 event in London
Showing special events to mark the 50th Anniversary of the end of London's Trolleybus era.
Commemorating the End of London’s Trolleybuses at EATM
This video is approx 24 mins in length and is as taken, with no editing, and shows the operation of 8 preserved London trolleybuses at the East Anglia Transport Museum Carlton Colville. It continues to the 8th May event - 50 years to the day - with 1521 decorated with posters and flags just as it was 50 years previously.
Trolleybus Arrivals at Fulwell Garage
Shows trolleybuses arriving at the Trolleybus 50 event in London.
London’s “Diddler” Trolleybus in Action
Filmed at the East Anglia Transport Museum, on Sunday 6th May 2012, this film shows the 1931 trolleybus which is nicknamed 'Diddler' in action at a special event to commemorate it being 50 years since the closure of London's trolleybus system in 1962.
Trolleybus Departures from Fulwell Garage
Shows trolleybuses departing from the Trolleybus 50 event in London.
Trolleybus 50 Newsreel
A tongue in cheek look at how Trolleybus 50 at Fulwell Bus Garage in May 2012, might have looked if Pathe Newsreels were still around! (Look out for The Trolleybus Museum promotional display in the background to Vince Cable!)
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