British Trolleybuses - Newcastle upon Tyne
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British Trolleybuses - Newcastle upon Tyne
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 25 Mar 1966
Byker Bridge in 1966 looking east. The distinctive supports for the overhead wires have disappeared, and we seem to need crash barriers these days. The trolleybus is no.621, one of the batch of BUT 9641T vehicles built in 1950 to the same design as the last trolleybuses built for London. By this stage only the main route 35 corridor was still operated by trolleybuses, the final closure coming the following year. 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
54.975595
Longitude
-1.591278