jonny777

and replaced by

Guitar Boogie Shuffle - Bert Weedon

(sorry, but I am getting on a bit)

from a can

she felt sick

In the 1950s and 60s, UK trams and trolleybuses desperately needed complete refurbishment ( look at all those Edwardian trams working all over the UK post-war! ) but there were simply no money to pay for that so the trams and trollies all had to go!

 

I dont think that is quite correct for trolleybuses, but is probably correct for trams. Bournemouth and Glasgow (to name two corporations) had trolleybuses running well into the 1960s, and many of their fleet were built in the 1950s and some were almost new.

The main problem as I recall was that it was an expansion of the infrastructure to serve the new post-war housing estates; that was the expensive bit. With a diesel bus, the town/city could purchase it and could employ it immediately on virtually all of the bus routes, new and old. But a new trolleybus could not go anywhere without the wires. Not only that, but they had difficulty maneouvering around any obstructions such as road works.

The 'modernisation' attitude (that which brought us the new Euston and the proposed demolition of St Pancras) of the times was also partly to blame. The 1960s was considered "the space age", and virtually no one wanted to be associated with 'yesterday's' transport.

John

56s that I saw in the 1980s at Cardiff were all within the 56032-56061 group.

John

killing lots of

Sorry, this is a day late - I forgot yesterday.

A few hours at Dawlish 17th August 1968

D836 D1938 D831+D870 D1913 D818 D1979 D1027 D863 D1023 D1019 D806 D837 D1607 D1020

W50900+W59352+W50854+W50907+W59346+W50857 D809 D850 D811 D1927 D803 D1606 D1605 D1061

D1067 D7008+D1059 D14 D800 D70 D1921 D863 D865 D835 D805 D1048 D1597 D1043

John

Ok. A few shots of mine. one with the details added (minus the sandboxes as they foul the body)

 

 

and the other not yet detailed

Not really seen passing through Duffield on the Midland Mainline in the 1960's My excuse. "On test from Derby"

The cab roof not flush with the top of the short bonnet is an interesting 'error'. In photos that I have seen of the class in service the cab roof was flush, but there is a side-on photo of D8200 in the January 1958 RO and the cab roof is definitely not flush. The photo is credited to BTH so presumably taken before the loco entered traffic.

I wonder if modifications were made to the cab height before the loco was officially delivered to BR, but Heljan have sourced the original drawings which did not include the modification?