British Trolleybuses - Ashton-under-Lyne
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The photograph on this page of British Trolleybuses - Ashton-under-Lyne by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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British Trolleybuses - Ashton-under-Lyne
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 30 Dec 1966
An Ashton trolleybus stands in Stalybridge Bus Station ready to depart on the route to Manchester (Piccadilly) on the last day of trolleybus operation. Although Stalybridge never operated trolleybuses - they had run trams as part of a joint undertaking with Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield - they nevertheless did own the overhead wires within the local authority area. The Bus Station has been modernised, but apart from the low building to the right which was part of the bus station, the other buildings all still exist. 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
53.484283
Longitude
-2.059637