The one time I travelled by trolley-bus (in Newcastle I believe), our bus's poles came off the overhead wires. We had to sit still for 30 minutes until a man with a long pole came to push the poles back onto the wires. Needless to say after that, I lost confidence in the concept of trolley-buses. My city (Coventry) never had them.

some context on the last layout, it was designed and built (with exception of i think the baseboards) by the members under 18, under supervision of some adults the adults were not however allowed final say in anything

The busses use to be great back in our day but now it’s just bland and boring only makes it worse that they stop doing the Dennis dart and that other one

some amazing footage of classics there. Those Liverpool drivers didn't hang around, did they lol. You might find it better to overdub the footage with some pre-recorded traffic noise, instead of the current sound which I think is the video operator transferring the film to video lol.

No sound.

Has this recently been refurbished? The cars, track and ballast all look very new. Were it not for the lower station building and one of the other comments here, I'd have thought it was a new build! 😇

I went on this lift in 1971 when I was 16. I think the cars have changed since those days. I remember them being made of wood! You did not show the interior of the lower station. I remember it being staffed by a sleepy boy! We decided to walk back down as we didn't think the lift was very safe! Thanks for uploading.

that name really is a mouthful

Here in Pittsburgh we're very familiar with funiculars - we call them inclines.

Scarborough has these too

Nicely shot! Welshman living in Brunei here, amazed to see this as I was completely unaware this existed! But there again, I haven't been to Aber for over 40 years lol. The only Funicular I have ridden on, was in Barcelona. Will defintely give this a try on my next visit home (Swansea)!

Swansea man living in Brunei here...also a train lover lol. Looked great fun. Where exactly in Derwen Fawr is this and is it a permanent railway? I left the UK in 2011, so, not familiar with the place lately. Last visit to Swansea was 2017 and I was shocked by the changes!

Very nice quality, better than mine and I spotted myself in it.

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Welshman living in Brunei here: Loved the footage. Must say, it was very professionally shot, a lot of smooth panning there. Growing up in Swansea, our local bus company, SWT, South Wales Transport, had almost identical fleet to Southdown from what I saw on the film. I recognized and indeed, rode, on many of those buses around my town, although they were painted a dark maroon colour! Lovely capture of that Atlantean: Beautiful, majestic vehicles weren't they? I have no idea, what the bus at 3:50 is! I have never seen that style of bodywork, but it seemed pretty nippy - was it an ex-Brummie BMMO model? I'm guessing Southdown was, like SWT, a BET company, hence the links with AEC buses. SWT too, also had a mere sprinkling of Bristol's, usually after they bought another local company. I hope in the very near future, with the amazing improvements in AI technology, that maybe one day soon you could restore that great footage to like new condition, with full colour restoration. Thanks for posting that blast from the past, marvelous! Cheers from Brunei.

I have 150scale model trolly buses when people come to m

A world already choked by cars even then!

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Rode on the trolley buses to go to cubs (2d fare) 1962 . Should have retained them, no tracks in the roads like the trams, but electric and silent, non-polluting. They still have a few in the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.

It’s all down to cost.

What year did they finish?? I remember travelling on them around Derby and Nottinghamshire in about 1967ish

I remember them as a kid running through Wembley in the '50s and 'early '60s

Excellent footage! Its great to see some of the original footage still intact enough for us to see. Thankyou

I used to use the Huddersfield trolleybuses to go to work in the 1960s. In the early 70s, when a student radiographer I used the Bradford trolleybuses to go to the Infirmary including their last day operating a public service. On one occasion I assisted X-raying casualties from what was probably the last trolleybus accident in the UK, after one was turned over with passengers aboard.

still all over the place in eastern europe

I can remember travelling with my mother on the "Lit-up" bus in Portsmouth & Southsea during Coronation year in the early 50s. If my memory serves me right, you paid twice the normal price to travel on it. Can't remember which route it was on: maybe the 5/6 or the 19/20. Having got on @ the Canoe Lake we would have alighted at the Prison or Copnor Bridge for the former or Fratton Bridge/Bradford Junction on the latter. My primary school at the time was served by the 14/15 which terminated @ the Circle via Victoria Road South - the old school site is now a Safeway's multi storey car park! No posh closing doors on our trolleys.

I recall travelling on trolleybuses in London in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s,but visiting Spain in 1970 ,driving into Bilbao seeing what appeared to be ex-London trolleybuses ,but fitted with smoke belching diesesl engines,surprising. When I first came to South Africa in 1972 threr were still some running in Johannesburg,but soon disappeared. I was in Vancouver recently & pleased to see that they have an extensive system around the city centre obviously cuts down noise & emissions. Never understood the rationale in the U.K. to dispose of trams & trolleybuses ,as most European cities I visited had them & they worked well. I live in Cape Town now,here trolleybuses were called “trackless trams”.

I remember riding on the Trolley Buses from Uxbridge Bus going towards Ealing that Beauty looks like an AEC who were base in South Hall near Hayes

I wonder which "political cretin" decided to do away trollybuses. No doubt he/she had "interests" in diesel and petrol industry at the time.Snouts in troughs as usual. Nothings changed.

The downside of the trolley bus was their lack of flexibility.For example if the road needed repairing they couldn't drive down another road where all the traffic was being diverted. I recall as a child,enjoying a ride on them from The Orange Tree in Friern Barnet to Wood Green to go shopping.Unfortunately journeys could be delayed if for example a car crash happened and they were unable to manoeuvre around the cars involved.

People today who never experienced a Trolley Bus have a huge gap in their education !

Interesting but a commentary would improve it enormously!

I remember travelling to school on London routes 601 and 667 in the late 1950's early 60's. The trolley buses were sold to somewhere overseas (Spain?) and for the last few months of the system before the Routemaster buses appeared some very old, rattly, but much lighter and faster trolley buses were used. They were great fun and we schoolboys were sorry to see them go. When the Routemasters appeared it seems that nobody taught the drivers how to drive them, with the result that every gearchange was accompanied by a violent jerk. Trolley buses will not make a comeback, because battery electric buses require no overhead wires and can drive on any road.

I remember these in Bradford, West Yorkshire, when I was a kid. They were quite fascinating, bring back the trolley buses!

Glasgow ran trolley buses from 1949 till 1967. Its network ran both single and double decker vehicles.

I'm lucky enough, and old enough nearly 63, to have travelled on the Bournemouth trolleybuses, I remember the turntable in use at Christchurch too. Still there of course in an office car park under a preservation order. Coincidentally I took some pictures today of the remains of the posts in Beresford Road Southbourne that held the overhead wires. There are 4 visible on one side of the road only where they were cut off at the base. Four iron rings poking up through the tarmac of the paving. I also saw, but didn't travel on, the Reading ones while visiting relatives in the 60s, my uncle worked in Heals department store where they went past. Such a wonderful 'green' means of transport and much missed.

If you are missing them, they still have 2 routes in Bratislava.

Silent, efficient and cheap to run. Get rid of them. Lol

Electric in times gone by, Now they bringing back Electric busses ,, The world is bonkers

Feels like this should be the future, and not the past.

Fantastic video! I rode the Belfast ones a lot and others sometimes. They were very quiet & efficient, except when the trolleys came off! Lol. They should have been retained!

Its cheap and simple to change a bus to electric on regular roots .cuts polution Perhaps when we get a decent moyer inlondon he may consider it .Howard cox .is the guy we need . I use to get a trolly bus to go From woolwich to Greenwich . The acceleration was fantasic if the driver was running late he soon made time up .sd kide it was good fun . To think we had it all our way back then but cheap diesel. Mest it up . The only thing was they run very quiet. One of thr reasons they git rid of them .but ss my old dad said. A bell on the bus Just to draw peoples attention. Would have sorted it . But as allways it was to easy .

I remember my dad taking on the last trolly bus in Brixton, South London must have been about 5. Great memories.

The first 50 seconds were a bit unnerving! Like a zombie apocalypse movie! Where was everyone lol?! Nice shots, haven't been through Gowerton for years. Cheers from Brunei.

I remember the yellow Bournemouth trolleys. A lot of OHD cables needed. Unsightly? Perhaps, but a lot cleaner than diesel buses. But I don't think we will see them back in numbers. The best way to remove cars / congestion / pollution from our cities is a clean, frequent, affordable and extensive network of a variety of public transport solutions. Including tram and trolley routes.

So many people have no idea how expensive it is keeping overhead cables permanently charged throughout a city like London. There is a reason these have been gradually withdrawn around the world.

Cardiff +/ Bradford - the last to get rid of them.

wow, some skilled 'weathering' there on those models. lovely footage, thanks for uploading. Cheers from Brunei (where there are no railways - or model shops!)

Fascinating film footage. I had never seen a turntable for trolley-busses before! Thanks for uploads. Cheers from Brunei.

Why is it silent? Would be a miles more interesting video with commentary.