British Trolleybuses - Belfast
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British Trolleybuses - Belfast
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 14 Apr 1968
Trolleybus 154 has just turned at the Grove Park terminus of route 9 on the York Road group of services; the main service continued through to Whitewell. This terminus was principally provided to allow extra journeys to operate to connect with boat trains at York Road Railway Station, and was never a regular turning point. On this occasion it was being used for an afternoon peak period extra journey. The trolleybus is a Guy BTX. The ones for Belfast were practically the only 6-wheelers that Guy built after WW2. All post-war trolleybuses for Belfast had bodies built by the local firm of Harkness. The view has changed considerably. The road junction has unsurprisingly been substantially remodelled. Much of the open space visible has been filled by the modern Wellbeing Centre. Most of the buildings on the right have been replaced too. 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
54.619754
Longitude
-5.92305