Trolleybuses in Walsall

Walsall trolleybus system
A Walsall trolleybus at Mossley Estate, October 1970.
Operation
Locale	Walsall, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), England
Open	22 July 1931 (1931-07-22)
Close	3 October 1970 (1970-10-03)
Status	Closed
Routes	6
Operator(s)	Walsall Corporation Transport
Infrastructure
Stock	60 (maximum)

The Walsall trolleybus system once served the town of Walsall, then in Staffordshire, but now in West Midlands, England. Opened on 22 July 1931 (1931-07-22),^[1][2] it gradually replaced the Walsall tramway network.

By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Walsall system was a medium sized one, with a total of 6 routes, and a maximum fleet of 60 trolleybuses. It was also one of the last to be closed, on 3 October 1970 (1970-10-03).^[1][2]

In its final years, the Walsall system had a very diverse fleet of trolleybuses, many of which had been acquired secondhand from already closed trolleybus systems elsewhere in England.^[3]

Four of the former Walsall system trolleybuses are now preserved in their pale blue Walsall livery. Two of them are at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, one is at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, and the other one is in the collection of Aston Manor Road Transport Museum, Birmingham.^[4]

Contents 1 See also 2 References 2.1 Notes 2.2 Further reading 3 External links

See also

• History of Walsall
• Transport in Walsall
• List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom

References

Notes

Further reading

• Walsall Trolleybuses. West Midlands, UK: West Midlands Public Transport Executive. 1970. 
• Brown, T J (1973). The Walsall Trolleybus System. West Riding, UK: West Riding Transport Society. 
• Harvey, David (1999). Walsall: A Nostalgic Tour by Tram, Bus and Trolleybus. Wadenhoe, East Northamptonshire, UK: Silver Link. ISBN 9781857941326. 
• Harvey, David (2009). Walsall Trolleybuses 1931-1970. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781848684645. 
• Potter, D F; Webb, J S; Wilson, Ray (1981). Walsall Corporation Transport. Solihull, West Midlands, UK: Birmingham Transport Historical Group. ISBN 0905103025. 

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Trolleybuses_in_Walsall Trolleybuses in Walsall] at Wikimedia Commons

• Off their Trolleys in Walsall & Bloxwich - a brief history of the Walsall trolleybus system.
• SCT'61 website - photos and descriptions of Walsall trolleybuses and early motorbuses.

• National Trolleybus Archive

• British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading.
• National Trolleybus Association, based in London.

Historic trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom England Ashton-under-Lyne Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Chesterfield Cleethorpes Darlington Derby Doncaster Grimsby Halifax Hartlepool Hastings Huddersfield Ipswich Keighley Kingston upon Hull Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Mexborough and Swinton Newcastle upon Tyne Nottingham Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Oldham Portsmouth Ramsbottom Reading Rotherham St Helens Southend-on-Sea South Lancashire South Shields Stockport Teesside Walsall Wigan Wolverhampton York Wales Aberdare Cardiff Llanelli Pontypridd Rhondda Scotland Dundee Glasgow Northern Ireland Belfast Museums Black Country Living Museum East Anglia Transport Museum London Transport Museum North West Museum of Road Transport The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft