British Trolleybuses - Walsall
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British Trolleybuses - Walsall
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 31 Jan 1970
At full stretch! Resurfacing on Stephenson Avenue meant that trolleybuses towards town had their poles at full stretch when coming past the works. Drivers had to be particularly careful to ensure that they did not lose contact, but this shows that there was a considerable measure of flexibility available. Most British trolleybus systems did not have back-up batteries to allow even short distances to be covered away from the wires. 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
52.598871
Longitude
-2.002467