12:57 the clip is the bus depot at the Falls park, the Andersonstown barracks, and the barbers shop on the corner. It then passes St Teresa’s and the parochial hall, and St Teresa’s primary school !! My old school! The bus terminus on the Glen Road !! Such memories.
Just loved the trolleys when I was growing up. The way they flashed going over the points on wet winter night's. My daddy was a conductor on the trolleys and used to tell us about trying to put them back on the lines when they'd jumped them happy days, for the passengers anyway
i worked for Belfast Corporation Electricity Dept and used most of the routes around Belfast. one of my favourites was Falls Rd onto Whiterock Rd, those trolley buses could rocket up that hill, when the newer diesels struggled. Does anyone remember the plastic tokens we used to get to pay our fares?
I suspect this was filmed over the very snowy winter 1964/65. Lots of snow and the buses grey from road salt! I finished work at Aldergrove at about 2am on Christmas morning and we had to push the staff bus up hill to then slide down to the City. I was on a trolley going up Antrim Road when I got up to get off, the bus slipped sideways and I was thrown, thanks to a heavy bag, straight off the platform into a (fortunately) soft pile of snow. The trolleybus system was still intact that winter, it began to be wound down soon after. That winter the government was still busy with it's stupid slaughter of the Railway. I was on the last train Belfast/Derry and return, (via Portadown) also the last train through the town of Newry.
Lovely quiet machines no noise pollution and no exhaust fumes just glide along. So many bad decisions made in Belfast like taking away trolley buses and knocking down our GNR station in Great Victoria Street our national treasures gone forever.
12:57 the clip is the bus depot at the Falls park, the Andersonstown barracks, and the barbers shop on the corner. It then passes St Teresa’s and the parochial hall, and St Teresa’s primary school !! My old school! The bus terminus on the Glen Road !! Such memories.
Just loved the trolleys when I was growing up. The way they flashed going over the points on wet winter night's. My daddy was a conductor on the trolleys and used to tell us about trying to put them back on the lines when they'd jumped them happy days, for the passengers anyway
i worked for Belfast Corporation Electricity Dept and used most of the routes around Belfast. one of my favourites was
Falls Rd onto Whiterock Rd, those trolley buses could rocket up that hill, when the newer diesels struggled. Does anyone
remember the plastic tokens we used to get to pay our fares?
Glen Road bus, 13.07 ! Used to take that from Castle Street to get to school! Thanks for these, very enjoyable.
Great old archive pictures. Thankfully the music stopped at 4 minutes!
I enjoyed this video ☺️ thanks
Trolly buses; clean, quiet, efficient;
then came "progress"
I suspect this was filmed over the very snowy winter 1964/65. Lots of snow and the buses grey from road salt! I finished work at Aldergrove at about 2am on Christmas morning and we had to push the staff bus up hill to then slide down to the City. I was on a trolley going up Antrim Road when I got up to get off, the bus slipped sideways and I was thrown, thanks to a heavy bag, straight off the platform into a (fortunately) soft pile of snow.
The trolleybus system was still intact that winter, it began to be wound down soon after.
That winter the government was still busy with it's stupid slaughter of the Railway. I was on the last train Belfast/Derry and return, (via Portadown) also the last train through the town of Newry.
Lovely quiet machines no noise pollution and no exhaust fumes just glide along. So many bad decisions made in Belfast like taking away trolley buses and knocking down our GNR station in Great Victoria Street our national treasures gone forever.
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Better with the sound off.
Cannot see myself. Did anyone see me?