Thanks for your comment, you are right about the pollution angle.

David Frobel many cities on the continent use these. ..surely with rising oil prices they could be reinstated in Britain?

Geoffrey Smith haha. I thought the same and then saw your comment!

+David Frobel Environmentally friendly, for sure!! 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

Colin Clarke az

Y are one great observer of minute details sir....great observation...

Yes, quite fantastic!! Nanny apparently off duty. 🥰 Boys will be boys. 🤫

This type of electrification is being used all over the central and eastern Europe.

Rick Jando It’s all over Europe. It’s just the UK that decided to go with 3rd rail instead of overhead wires for some reason.

True. The modern trams don't squeal the same way, it's almost like they're shearing their wheels or something.

I see what you mean!

Both the museums featured are excellent, the East Anglia museum has just acquired land next to the museum, when developed it will pretty much double the size of the museum.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs , Thanks! Will try and get there in the not-too-distant future.

One was preserved: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport_Corporation_Tramways I hope there's more

Most pleasant and luxurious way to travel... like gliding!

Thank you.

tram tracks were still in place in the 60s through the Broadway and half through Tramway Avenue Our bike wheels used to get stuck if you weren't careful.And the Trolley bus electric poles always came off the corner of Romford Rd/Broadway

Oil sales manipulation

Stephen Dartnall : Same in Wallasey, so me Dad told me.

There are no trollleybuses in Calcutta...

And fantastic acceleration, it was almost impossible to run and jump on unless one was an Olympic Sprinter, or a fast kid like I was. It was a game we used to play on the route 601, jumping off as soon as one foot was on the platform and one hand on a grab pole. It was very amusing to see a chap puffing and panting on the pavement after attempting to chase one, more so viewed from the drivers cab, although mine was the cab of an RT not a Trolleybus, some RT's were quick off a standing start if the injector pump had been mis-calibrated, accompanied by a cloud of black smoke.

I used to ride on the 662 regularly along Wembley high street. They had a fantastic acceleration. You had to really hang on.

Thanks for your kind comment, I used to go to school on London trolleybuses about 60 years ago, I have always loved the quietness and speed.

Excellent museum!

Lol

Gauntlet track

EATM is one of my favourite museums, unfortunately I live about 150 miles away so can't go there as often as I would like.

Thanks for your comment, the trams and trolleybuses were pollution free, we have a tramway system in south London and about 12 routes with electric buses with more to come.

My "Electric Rail Tram's" are very, very, very, very quiet no nose from them.

Thxs

Thank you.

I used to goto school by trolleybus in London.

Thanks for your comment, I used to go to school on trolleybuses in North London from 1957 - 1960, London trolleys were built to last, hardly any vibration and superb acceleration, many of them did more than 1 million miles in London.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs I suspect the trolleys in other areas were similarly sturdy. We had them in Manchester up until 1966 (four years before I was born) and my grandfather used to drive them. From what I can establish, the ones we had up here didn't have the two rear axle layout as in your video.

@@leopold7562 Manchester had 4 wheel and 6 wheel trolleybuses built by Leyland and Crossley. Crossley 6 wheeler no. 1250 is in the Greater Manchester Museum Of Transport. Ashton Under Lyne Corporation also ran trolleybuses into Manchester from Ashton & Stalybridge, most of their fleet was 4 wheelers, but they also had a few 6 wheelers. London only had 1 4 wheeler, an early prototype that was scrapped in the 1950's, the other 1890 trolleys were all 6 wheelers.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Thanks for the info. As I said before, these were taken out of service before I was born, so I never got the chance to see them in the flesh. The only one I ever saw was a photo of my grandfather stood next to the one he was driving, a four wheeler, whilst outside the depot (I don't recall which one, I think it was near Cheetham Hill, but I could be wrong). As I'd grown up with the "liquorice allsorts" GMT liveries in the 70s and 80s, I was surprised to find out the trolleys were red! Obviously, as the photo was black and white, I could only see it was a single colour, so he had to tell me what colour it was.

Only every 12 minutes, you don't live on a busy route then.

Not in the museum, it is all overhead line power supply. The conduit - 3rd rail was extensive in London with only the outer suburban routes being overhead line.

My Gran used to drink a Guinness every day for anemia - on doctor’s orders!.

@@annskinner8467 A good source of iron if i remember correctly.

Unfortunately the only trolleybuses we have in the UK are in museums.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs what is nicein the summer.the older trollies can be seen and ridden as the are dustd off an d put in daily servicewhich is fun!

Yes, this museum is excellent I have a couple of other videos taken there on You Tube. I used to go to senior school on London trolleybuses like the ones in this video.@@johannesfeigl5309

The Swansea & Mumbles line used large 106 seater double deck trams between 1929 & 1960, they were often run in pairs. London County Council also ran double deck trams with double deck trailers between 1910 and 1924 on several routes in South London. The motor trams were E class double deckers and the first few trailers were open top ex horse trams, the production trailers were purpose built but still open top.

George Shillebeers Omnibus of 1829 was a single decker, I suppose that stage coaches were double deckers as some passengers sat outside in front of and behind the roof of the passenger compartment.

Aperi Oculus during 50s oil was cheap as water

Thanks for your comment, the Crich Museum continues to go from strength to strength, I hope to visit later this year, unfortunately I live about 150 miles away so cannot go as often as I would like.

Whoops, It’s in the credits. Still, in the title would have been helpful.

Thanks for your comments, I have always liked London trolleybuses, I used to travel to school on London trolleybuses between 1957 & 1960.

So did I

Don't bother.

Trolleybuses could deviate from the line of the overhead cable quite a bit, there was a limit though before there would be a dewirement. Driving a trolleybus was quite a skilled job, the conductors played an important part too, their job, apart from collecting the fares, was to change the points on the overhead at junctions.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs I drove trolley buses in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1970s. They were quite easy and pleasant to drive once you got used to the quirks, such as controlling the "snatch" on take off or acceleration from low speeds, plus the poles throwing. They were quiet and the cabs were cool, unlike some of the motor buses (AEC Mk 5s) which were noisy and in Johannesburg, sitting next to the engine could make you unpleasantly warm. On the pole throwing, after an initial period of some incidents, you got to know the quirks of the system and where pole throwing could occur, so took appropriate care, not least because it was a pain in the neck fishing for the poles in the sky, often with the sun directly overhead, making visibility a problem. I managed to reduce pole throwing to virtually none, although it could be unpredictable, some buses being worse than others, probably as a result of tension issues. As others have noted, they were quick on acceleration and had to have very good brakes as they tended to roll quite easily. Some drivers couldn't stand them, but I had no problem and certainly preferred them to the Mk 5s.

I don't know why London or most other trolleybuses in the UK didn't use automatic trolley retrievers, they were very common in other countries, another case of the British being different perhaps?

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs maybe just an excuse for abandoning a mode of transport not profitable for oil companies?

Not in London I'm afraid, the first section of the video is at the East Anglia Transport Museum which is near the coastal town of Lowestoft, about 130 miles from London, the second part of the video is at the National Tramway Museum is at Crich, Derbyshire, in the North Midlands of England, about 160 miles north of London.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs All this locomotion was within a museum! I wonder how large the museums are!

@@aayushsinghal589 We are lucky in the UK to have several excellent transport museums where you can ride on trolleybuses and trams, to give you some idea of size, the running track at the National tramway museum is a little over a mile long, and the East Anglia Transport Museum line is only about 1/2 a mile, so not very big, unlike some of the museums in the USA for instance that have track that is several miles long.

Buses are much bigger and heavier today, especially electric ones with the weight of the batteries being quite substantial.

Yes this used to happen sometimes, the trolleybus would come to an abrupt halt and the conductor had to get the long bamboo pole out and and re-connct the trolleybus to the overhead. There were several reasons why trolleybuses were abandoned in London: trolleybuses were seen as inflexible, diesel buses could easily go off route if needed, most of the trolleybuses dated from 1936 - 1940 and the cost of replacing them and other infrastructure was deemed at the time to be too much. In those days pollution from petrol and diesel vehicles wasn't perceived as a problem, unlike today, hence the introduction of battery electric buses in London in recent years.

I think the driver is using a wooden stick that doesn't conduct electricity