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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2004 8:57:15 GMT
Where was the last stretch of trolleybus overhead to be removed in London and, conversely where is the latest piece of trolleybus overheard to be erected in London?
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Post by john on Oct 1, 2004 23:55:04 GMT
Croydon?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2004 8:44:14 GMT
It should have been in the Fulwell Isleworth area, but I'm sure that this is a trick question. In the last part, do you mean trolley overhead or tram overhead?.
(You've got a new book haven't you ;D)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2004 10:51:31 GMT
Not in Fulwell/Isleworth area. Not really a trick question although the second one could be classed as such, even though the wires do make contact with the poles of a London t'bus.
The only new book I have, should you be intesrested, is that on Buses & Trams on the Screen, which I have advertised under Books & Videos. A snip at £3.50!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2004 10:53:56 GMT
Not Croydon either!
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Post by john on Oct 4, 2004 21:48:47 GMT
I'm kinda shooting in the dark here but is it Wimbledon? I really haven't got a clue but random guesses could get it
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2004 14:50:28 GMT
OK. Last piece of overhead to be removed was at Shepherds Bush Green, sometime in 1962.
A stretch of trolleybus overhead (albeit dead) was installed this year in the LT museum at Covent Garden for their T/B.
(All trams in the museum (apart from the Feltham) have overhead wire.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2004 8:53:24 GMT
So this was after the 657 was withdrawn, but how long after? Last rolleybus was May 1962
If there was much of a delay it would be at odds with previous policy which was to take the O/H down as soon as the last trolleybus had gone, even to the point where a forgotten about trolleybus from HB which ran after the last official trolley had returned to the depot was caught without power when the overhead was removed from the depot entrance. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2004 9:01:39 GMT
1. don't know
2. I like it!
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