Trolleybus driver training...

A short video showing Trolleybus driver training at Fulwell Depot in 1931.
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Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Trolleybus
• Teddington
• Fulwell Depot
• Diddlers
• London United
• London Transport
• Driver training
• London tram
• London trolleybus
• 1931
• LUT

[Butchuk2007]

Take a look at this video taken in 1990 of No.1 in action at a museum>> watch?v=3nqHefTeK_0

[oldsyphilitic]

A charming film with a charming soundtrack. Thanks very much for posting.

[citytransportinfo]

@JollyRodders in those days the harmful effects of diesel engine exhuast fumes were not understood.

Big mistake... which has helped to cost people their health, even their lives.

[andredeaquino2008]

Muito bom este vídeo.

Não me conformo com esta realidade. Ja exportaram trolebus para o Brasil, pais onde eu moro, e hoje não tem mais trolebus no país.

[Ben31337l]

@Butchuk2007 Ohh... it would have been awesome for london to get trams again.

It's a shame that london is stuck with motor busses.

[Butchuk2007]

@Ben31337l Yes today we have a different outlook, but back in the 1950s & 1960s it was thought more economical to replace fixed routes with the more flexible motor buses. Other parts of the world thought differently hence you have good tramways modernised over the years and also trolleybus routes still in operation. The U.K was starting to re-introduce trams until a certain Alistair Darling was lobbied by WorstGroup. He then cancelled all tramway projects at the time....back in 2003.

[Ben31337l]

@JollyRodders That's ironic, because they have bus routes, which tell the busses where to go, and the busses stick to the route.

But fair enough.

[JollyRodders]

@Ben31337l Trolleybuses came to an end because they were not considered to be flexible like a diesel powered bus, which could go anywhere it wanted. They didn't need the external infrastructure to provide the power to the bus, such as a power station and substations, overhead wires poles etc and the associated costs of maintaing that infrastructure...So simply put...yes.

[Ben31337l]

@JollyRodders so, why did trollybusses end? the overhead lines expensive to maintain?

[JollyRodders]

@Ben31337l The trolleybus you see in this video was set to replace the trams because the tracks as well as the trams which were coming up to 30 years old, were starting to wear out and needed replacing en-masse. It was alot cheaper to abandon the tracks and replace the trams with trolleybuses. As you can see in the video LUT also had a modern tram built as well.