What a great film! As a native of Middlesbrough who remembers the trolleybuses as a child, I really loved seeing them again. Thanks for posting this video. E.J.M. Abbot did a great job filming this. I live in Austria now, and we still have trolleybuses in Salzburg, and Linz has both trolleybuses and trams. I have great affection for these types of public transport!
Great stuff!! I remember on cold wet nights how the lines used to spark!! Then the curses of the driver attaching the arms back on to the wires with a big long pole!! Everybody cheering when the lights came back on, then off the bus went!!…. I always liked riding the “trackless” from Smeaton street school,were it use to turn around, to Eston square!!…
Lovely to see these old trolley busses again, I was 18 back then. These old cine films also show the old shops and run down state of things before modernisation took over. Certainly was a different world.
Both these Trolleybuses are still with us, GAJ15 can be found at Kirkleatham Museum, whilst the ex Reading vehicle T291 is in secure storage on Teesside. The other Trolleybus used on the last day, GAJ12 survives at the Kiethley bus museum.
My dad was a south bank driver from 1970 till 76 then he moved to central depot on parliament road where he did another ten years then je kumped sides and went to tees and district in loftus ive followed his footsteps and drove for local coach firms and now arriva .but all the other older drivers say the job has changed beyond recognition for the worse to .😢
I can just about remember travelling on London Trolleybuses as a small child. With the advancement of battery technology I presume you could now have a fleet of electric buses serving a town without the need for what some would describe as unsightly overhead wiring. The major disadvantages of the old trolleybus systems were the poles coming off, inflexibility, if something was blocking their route, and the fact that they could not overtake each other.
The penultimate area to lose it's trolleybuses. After that only Bradford remained & that went the following year. It might have had it's disadvantages, notably the trolley-poles coming off the wires but lots of plus points. Noiseless, pollution free, smooth rides & highly manouverable compared to conventional buses. In most cases they replaced the trams which could have uncomfortable rides & could easily have taken over the reserved tracks vacated by the trams. However trolleybuses were not as popular as trams despite many earlier mentioned advantages & have never made a comeback after Bradford.
Wonderful to see this historic film, my late father drove these busses and told me that enthusiasts had pushed his bus into the old reverser at market street and also round grangetown square where the overhead wires had been removed, sadly the interest was always the vehicles not the crews so not much chance of identifying the driver.
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Beautiful. Very calming. Trolleybus therapy! Let's have some Trolleybus heritage routes. While the British may not be lacking in invention they lack in (heritage) imagination!
Exactly. We were using the technology years ago, and now, with all the electric cars and buses making a come back they're doing it as the technology has just been invented. They had electric trolley buses since 1900s as far as a I know.
@@bf2404 They need to use battery technology plus inductive charging in the road along the route and also charging at stops and stations. This allows some movement off route for flexibility. The overhead wires system was s nightmare.
DID YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND - NORTON GREEN, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE, STOCKTON, YORK & YARM Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. They married in Yarm in 1941. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1). Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks. When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs lived in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. He also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne. So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs! Details of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974.
North Ormesby, Cargo Fleet ( Depot), South Bank-Vrd184 with the lean ( 5.51) on is passing Dorman Long in South Bank heading to Grangetown. At 2.53 ex Reading is heading up the hill at Whale Hill estate before turning right to Eston.
Looked like a red United bus passed in front of the trolley 🚎 bus about halfway through?I can't remember them running but probably saw them as a kid and it didn't register.
@@kevanhubbard9673 They were always around - if you wanted to go to Redcar and beyond, it was the United only - trolley buses ran between North Ormesby and Normanby, via Grangetown and Eston! The poles kept coming off the wires on the bends - especially on the junction of Bolckow Road and Birchington Avenue in Grangetown! I can remember coming home from junior school and seeing the geezers taking down the trolley wires! Showing my age, here - I will be 60 next May - can’t remember the exact year, but, if it’s any help to anyone who remembers the exact year, I was born on the 31st of May in 1963 at 102 Birchington Avenue in what was referred to as “the bull ring!”. Just checked - if the trolley buses were discontinued in 1971, I would have been about seven or eight, depending on what date in the year it happened!
What a great film! As a native of Middlesbrough who remembers the trolleybuses as a child, I really loved seeing them again. Thanks for posting this video. E.J.M. Abbot did a great job filming this. I live in Austria now, and we still have trolleybuses in Salzburg, and Linz has both trolleybuses and trams. I have great affection for these types of public transport!
Great stuff!! I remember on cold wet nights how the lines used to spark!! Then the curses of the driver attaching the arms back on to the wires with a big long pole!! Everybody cheering when the lights came back on, then off the bus went!!…. I always liked riding the “trackless” from Smeaton street school,were it use to turn around, to Eston square!!…
One of my early memories as a child in Mddlesbrough is of the trolleybus driver attaching the trolley pole back onto the overhead wires!
Happy memories of getting trolley bus in North Ormesby to work at Cargo Fleet Steelworks. Shame we haven’t got them now. Great film, Thank you.
The weird thing is... these buses still look modern! The power of simplicity in form ;)
Lovely to see these old trolley busses again, I was 18 back then. These old cine films also show the old shops and run down state of things before modernisation took over. Certainly was a different world.
Both these Trolleybuses are still with us, GAJ15 can be found at Kirkleatham Museum, whilst the ex Reading vehicle T291 is in secure storage on Teesside. The other Trolleybus used on the last day, GAJ12 survives at the Kiethley bus museum.
My dad was a south bank driver from 1970 till 76 then he moved to central depot on parliament road where he did another ten years then je kumped sides and went to tees and district in loftus ive followed his footsteps and drove for local coach firms and now arriva .but all the other older drivers say the job has changed beyond recognition for the worse to .😢
I can just about remember travelling on London Trolleybuses as a small child. With the advancement of battery technology I presume you could now have a fleet of electric buses serving a town without the need for what some would describe as unsightly overhead wiring. The major disadvantages of the old trolleybus systems were the poles coming off, inflexibility, if something was blocking their route, and the fact that they could not overtake each other.
What great footage great quality. Thanks for sharing
Wow !! Pure nostalgia. I loved trolley buses.
I moved to teeside in 1976, didn't realize they had trolley buses that recently.
Nice to see the old rows of houses that once stood where the A66 and Asda South Bank now stand as the bus comes down the flyover.
Which part of the film is that?
Iffy 3:58 is south bank High street isn’t it?
The penultimate area to lose it's trolleybuses. After that only Bradford remained & that went the following year. It might have had it's disadvantages, notably the trolley-poles coming off the wires but lots of plus points. Noiseless, pollution free, smooth rides & highly manouverable compared to conventional buses. In most cases they replaced the trams which could have uncomfortable rides & could easily have taken over the reserved tracks vacated by the trams. However trolleybuses were not as popular as trams despite many earlier mentioned advantages & have never made a comeback after Bradford.
Brings back memories. Great video.Thanks
Sad to see how shabby this system had become. Back in the days of Teesside Railless Traction, the buses were always immaculately turned out.
Lovely footage. And - walking around on the roof of the trolleybus with absolutely no safety measures at all ... :)
Wonderful to see this historic film, my late father drove these busses and told me that enthusiasts had pushed his bus into the old reverser at market street and also round grangetown square where the overhead wires had been removed, sadly the interest was always the vehicles not the crews so not much chance of identifying the driver.
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Love it, so many memories.
Looks like they went quiet fast although they were on rails I really wished to have been on one as I have watched these the time they went out
Very much Burlingham trolleybuses
Beautiful. Very calming. Trolleybus therapy! Let's have some Trolleybus heritage routes. While the British may not be lacking in invention they lack in (heritage) imagination!
I thought the battery movement is very interesting, how far can it travel on battery alone ?
I wish they have kept the electric overhead cable, it would be a useful now to cut the emission.
I got my conductor's license on the TRTB in 1966.
Should bring them back, no pollution, quiet and comfortable.
Exactly. We were using the technology years ago, and now, with all the electric cars and buses making a come back they're doing it as the technology has just been invented. They had electric trolley buses since 1900s as far as a I know.
@@bf2404 They need to use battery technology plus inductive charging in the road along the route and also charging at stops and stations.
This allows some movement off route for flexibility. The overhead wires system was s nightmare.
nice vid
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DID YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND - NORTON GREEN, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE, STOCKTON, YORK & YARM Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps.
Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. They married in Yarm in 1941. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1).
Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks.
When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs lived in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. He also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne.
So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs!
Details of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974.
Look at those trolley buses 0 percent emissions.
1870 surely
I love these nostalgic clips.
I do wonder how many thousands the council threw away on this obvious false economy. Some things never change.
Where was this filmed?
Other than generally around Teesside, I don't have any details about where the film was shot I'm afraid.
Southbank middlesbrough the trolly bus depo was cargofleet Lane
North Ormesby, Cargo Fleet ( Depot), South Bank-Vrd184
with the lean ( 5.51) on is passing Dorman Long in South Bank heading to Grangetown. At 2.53 ex Reading is heading up the hill at Whale Hill estate before turning right to Eston.
Looked like a red United bus passed in front of the trolley 🚎 bus about halfway through?I can't remember them running but probably saw them as a kid and it didn't register.
@@kevanhubbard9673 They were always around - if you wanted to go to Redcar and beyond, it was the United only - trolley buses ran between North Ormesby and Normanby, via Grangetown and Eston!
The poles kept coming off the wires on the bends - especially on the junction of Bolckow Road and Birchington Avenue in Grangetown!
I can remember coming home from junior school and seeing the geezers taking down the trolley wires! Showing my age, here - I will be 60 next May - can’t remember the exact year, but, if it’s any help to anyone who remembers the exact year, I was born on the 31st of May in 1963 at 102 Birchington Avenue in what was referred to as “the bull ring!”.
Just checked - if the trolley buses were discontinued in 1971, I would have been about seven or eight, depending on what date in the year it happened!