British Trolleybuses - Maidstone
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British Trolleybuses - Maidstone
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 10 Sep 1966
Trolleybus 86 waits at Nottingham Avenue on Sutton Road. This was a short working on the Park Wood route, and was only used by a small number of journeys at peak periods. The conductor has taken the opportunity to purchase an evening paper. The vehicle was bought second hand from the Hastings system when it closed in 1959 and would have done nearly 20 years service when the Maidstone trolleybuses finished. The road junction here has been remodelled since the picture was taken; the traffic island has been merged with the green beyond the vehicle and it be impossible to make the same manoeuvre today. For a slide show of British Trolleybuses in the late 60s http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1773236&displayclass=slide
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Image Location
Latitude
51.247433
Longitude
0.547733