Bradford Trolleybuses video 1960's

An early 1990's documentary from Bradford. The bottom Bolton Road at 2:01 onwards. The top of Bolton Road (you can see the side of the old Morrisons building at 2:31) . Windhill at 3:09. Petvax vet surgery and the Alma Inn, Windhill 3:15. The bottom of Leeds road near Carr Lane at 3:19. Saltaire (Tramshed) at 3:46. The Railway Bridge in Shipley 3:30. Thackley Corner at 4:10. Idle (near the fire station on Highfield Road) at 3:55 and some shots from Wibsey.

[@nitwit4947]

I remember the trolley buses well. They came along every twenty minutes, very quiet, very reliable and always on time . Wish we still had them.

[@sappertim1]

I used to repair and maintain these at Thornbury Works bus repair shop on Leeds road. Happy days.

[@trainsandtrams2020]

I wish some British cities would have been able to preserve their trolleybus networks. They would be a real asset now and for the future, to increase green and clean transport. It would be so cool to ride even in contemporary style double-deck trolleys! Something that is not possible of course in those continental cities, that kept their trolleybus networks, where now all modern vehicles of course are either single units or bendy buses. This film has a lot of nostalgic flair, thanks for sharing it! :)

[@brianpattison4587]

bring back the trollybuses.

[@soundseeker63]

Alas, still no trolley buses in 2019. Even the old catenary poles have now been replaced with generic lamp posts. How far we have come :-/ Bradford suffered badly in the 1960s and 70s, so much of its original heart and soul torn down and lost forever. Very sad.

[@yahyabenzakar9364]

Bradford was known for so much rich history ❤

[@tdoran616]

It still has a rich history if you know where to look, Bradford has changed a lot but the history behind it still remains fascinating

[@artursmehdijevs5872]

I am from Latvia, lived in Bradford in 2006, very interesting to compare and see there were trolleys once..

[@tdoran616]

What was your experience in Bradford like back then?

[@artursmehdijevs5872]

@@tdoran616 The city has it's own spirit and I enjoyed living there..

[@tominnis8353]

Brilliant. Just as I remember them. Thank you. How very short sighted.

[@hussainkhan6630]

The good old days

[@marioandrikopoulos2158]

Oh yes man!

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[@philrobinson005]

fantastic .

[@Ploggy.]

Great video thanks for posting 👍

[@DeanTomboy1995]

I was not born until the mid 90s and want trollybuses back I want to ride in one 😁👍🏻

[@sufianansari4923]

Wow! Thanks for posting this buddy!

[@wormmurdering7084]

Love the lada nearly rear ending the micra @ 5:29

[@unclephil440]

A great video, thanks for sharing

[@easydrive3662]

Wow it's great to see saltaire,Shipley and Leeds rd in the 1960s! Everything looked so clean and the roads non cluttered with signs,bollards etc. It's also nice to see Bradford in what appears to be the early to mid 1990s in those clips. Such a shame the city has gone so downhill now,real shame!

[@Grid56]

Some legacies of the trolley buses can still be found. The really wide bit of road pictured at Wibsey and at Crossflatts just beyond Bingley as well as the recently replaced small roundabout at Saltaire required to allow the turning circle of the trolley bus due to the overhead wires.

[@marvinwatkins8889]

Bradford, had you kept your trolley buses another year past the Oil Embargo of '73, you still might have had them today. Eliminating trams and trolley buses: BIG mistake, Britain!

[@Isochest]

Just like the Good old USA eliminating the Milwaukee Road the same time. Leaders are not leaders. They are Narcissistic Puppets. True leaders are penalised because Narcissists rally their flying monkeys in support

[@easydrive3662]

Nice to see the cars from 1960s and cars from I'd say around 1995 I'd say.

[@alfrede.bordass5595]

Just "Great" to see.

[@713davidh42]

Nice then and now video. I grew up with trolleybuses in Kansas City and St. Joseph, MO. I noted the diesel bus was really spewing exhaust beginning at 5:15.

[@ianbentley7276]

it's not now, this film ia bout 25 years old.

[@sealerdave]

In 1952 I was 16 years old on a trolley bus going up Duckworth Lane towards the Roal Infirmary near Fairbanks Road Bradford,full speed when the driver had a heart attack the bus mounted the divider in the middle of the road and fell on its side. I was coming down the steps from upstairs and was thrown down the steps I was lucky just tore my new jeans.Dave J San Marcos CA USA(Any body heard of another one falling over on its side ?

[@perthsaint66]

liar

[@ianbentley7276]

@@perthsaint66 tosser

[@johnny3_]

@sealerdave are u alive?

[@sealerdave]

@@johnny3_ Yes I.m 87

[@johnny3_]

@@sealerdave mad geeza ill get back to u in 7 years 😂😂

[@alpacin1o]

Love the music 😅

[@mordokch]

I was born and bread in Bradford - would have been about 6 when the trolleys stopped running. My dad worked on them and the subsequent petrol ones as a conductor - I have a few memories of going with him to the depot a few times. Bradford was much nicer then - today it really isn't fit for human habitation. I moved out to the coast 25 years ago and refuse point blank to 'be seen dead' there ever again lol. Enjoyed the vid a lot - cheers !

[@mordokch]

Granary lol. I'm not correcting it now, but well spotted 🧐🤔😁@motorhomemick315

[@deano230]

love it

[@travellifewithjobo5740]

Visited 13.11.2017 and oh boy has Bradford pulled its socks up;the City Centre makes my home town of Stockport look like a dump.Well done Big B you are on the way up

[@ianbentley7276]

Bradford has changed for the worse since this video was made imo. The "modern" pieces of fllm in this are about 15 years old.

[@paulholland5270]

mid 1990s by the looks of the cars. my guess is summer 1995.just seen a 90s camtrail in sky 4mins 55secs in video

[@beeble2003]

As the video description says, it was filmed in the early 1990s.

[@beeble2003]

@@paulholland5270 Um. Those are cirrus clouds. They had those before the 1990s, you know.

[@WillScarlet1991]

@@beeble2003 😂😂

[@oldsyphilitic]

The trolley polls that he refers to were actually called 'traction poles'

[@abingleyboy]

It's very odd seeing a video explaning how Bradford has changed but the then and the now are both in the past now as much of it all has changed, even the now sections of the film.

[@GULFRAZMAJEEDseye8eyes]

Bring back the electronic version of Buses with solar panels fitted

[@WillScarlet1991]

So these trolley buses could only go in certain directions since they were hooked on some sort of electric line above ? The driver couldn't take any short cuts etc.. ?

[@travellifewithjobo5740]

They could a short distance on batteries

[@colinvespa4709]

Hybrid trolleybuses have been made since then with diesel engines and electric motors.

[@beeble2003]

Buses don't take short-cuts. If the driver skips stops, the passengers get angry.

[@piszecokolwiek]

Very nice movie. Beautiful city. Greetings from Poland.

[@AbidAli-kn3gh]

Nice

[@petermitchell6348]

'Pennine Mountains!? Since when?

[@s.j.bailey6493]

Depressing that half of this comment section is a rant by foaming at the mouth racists. I just came here to learn about the trolleybuses my dad told me about.

[@Siraj75]

I know what you mean. I only came here for a bit of history which I found interesting.

[@superjohnnygamble6328]

S, J. Bailey I agree with you a great video only to be spoilt by comments from racist idiots. No wonder why they are hated by the vast majority of people.

[@hanajinks1044]

@@superjohnnygamble6328 What's racism?

[@superjohnnygamble6328]

@@hanajinks1044 ask S J Bailey don't ask me . If you don't know the meaning of the word racism look it up in the dictionary.

[@hanajinks1044]

@@superjohnnygamble6328 But you're calling others racist and even say that they're hated by many. So go, you must have some idea.

[@rickyraw5457]

Looked better fifty years ago...

[@oldpal1867]

Thornbury was the last route.

[@seye8eyes]

Just like the stamps and the currency 1972

[@alftupper9359]

The what? 'The Pennine Mountains'? Jesus. (Just read the comment section below. What a lovely city.)

[@Yorkshireguycooks]

Now its a dump

[@oddities-whatnot]

Had to laugh at the Penine mountains bit !

[@tonyka2439]

Bradford looked better then than it does now.we can see the decline.

[@imnotavingthat6813]

Buses have caused way more pollution over the years than cars surely. Did you see the shit that last one spewed out. Even in bradford today there running buses that are 15year old and some,

[@paulreynolds9003]

Am from Bradford and even back when this was filmed we had a mixed population of Asia and white people. But have you noticed how clean the areas where this has been filmed. At what point did the council and people stop caring about their city.

[@adih235]

And look what it's becoming 🤦‍♂️

[@ProTroll_UK]

1960s not 1960’s.

[@watchthis7529]

Now it’s pakistan

[@BellogsTheChicken]

changes for the worse

[@RomanAlexander1]

Great video. Totally ruined by the truly awful music.

[@sarakhatun1838]

Was any Muslim lived in Bradford back then

[@ianbentley7276]

@Marshmello yes, the bus conductor hopping off the bus and many more.

[@ianbentley7276]

yes, the bus conductor hopping off the bus and many more.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@@ianbentley7276 okay spook

[@throwow1014]

Sara Khatun not as many, it was a beautiful town

[@schopdat1824]

@@ianbentley7276 thats an asian man or at least we think by visual assumption. We dont know if he is muslim though or if he identifies as such. Could be anything

[@rusty5078]

Bradford was once one of the most successful cities outside of London. The mills all shut down, the immigrants came in thousands and now it's poverty stricken. My country is going to shite for real