British Trolleybuses - Glasgow

Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 24 Mar 1966

Tay Crescent, Riddrie. This was an intermediate terminus on the long route 106 from Millerston (in the north-east of the city) to Bellahouston in the south-west (south of the Clyde). Glasgow started its conversion of tramways to trolleybuses immediately after the second world war, but only a handful of routes were completed before the decision was made to convert the rest of the system with diesel buses. The trolleybuses outlasted the trams by less than five years. Route 106 was replaced by bus route 38. This housing estate with its two storey houses marks an intermediate stage between the working class traditional tenements and the high-rise which was already making an impact on the city landscape by the mid-60s. 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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