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
Close 3 October 1970
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,[1][2] it gradually replaced the Walsall Corporation Tramways 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.[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]


See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Short, Peter. "Former UK systems". British Trolleybus Society website. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bruce, Ashley. "British Trolleybus Systems". British Trolleybuses website. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Williams, Stuart (27 September 2010). "Off their Trolleys in Walsall & Bloxwich". The Bloxidge Tallygraph. The Little Bloxwich Press. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  4. ↑ Zebedee, John (30 November 2010). "A List of Preserved Trolleybuses in the UK". British Trolleybus Society website. Retrieved 4 April 2011.

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 978-1-85794-132-6.
  • Harvey, David (2009). Walsall Trolleybuses 1931-1970. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84868-464-5.
  • Lockwood, Stephen (2014). Walsall Trolleybuses. Trolleybus Classics Number 31. Midhurst, West Sussex, UK: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174666.
  • Potter, D F; Webb, J S; Wilson, Ray (1981). Walsall Corporation Transport. Solihull, West Midlands, UK: Birmingham Transport Historical Group. ISBN 0-905103-02-5.

External links

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