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The Reading Transport Society spent years searching for a site where their vehicles could be exhibited and operated, and were instrumental in setting up The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft in 1969, where all of the preserved vehicles are normally stored. The Society was rebranded as the British Trolleybus Society in 1971, reflecting the wider ...
In 2011, the museum was the largest trolleybus museum in Britain, housing some 50 vehicles, including some imported from abroad, and about half of this number could be used to give rides to the public over an oval two-way circuit. [2] By 2019, the number of vehicles had increased to over 60.
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
Date (from) Date (to) Notes Bradford: 20 June 1911 26 March 1972 The last trolleybus system (apart from museum lines) in the UK. [2] See also Trolleybuses in Bradford. Doncaster: 22 August 1928 14 December 1963 See also Trolleybuses in Doncaster. 1985 1986 Demonstration Grimsby: 3 October 1926 4 June 1960 See also Trolleybuses in Grimsby.
Date (from) Date (to) Notes Los Angeles: 11 September 1910 1915 Located in Laurel Canyon. The first commercial trolleybus system in the United States. [4] [5] [6] Later, there were 1922 and 1937 demonstrations of newer vehicles. [1] [7] [a] Los Angeles Transit Lines (1947–58); Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (1958–63) [6] 3 ...
See also Fort Smith Trolley Museum, which operates non-transit heritage streetcar service along city streets. ♦ Van Buren: Electric ? ? West Helena Consolidated Company [3] Helena: Horse December 1894: January 1910 Electric January 1910: August 5, 1933 Central Arkansas Railway and Light Corporation [3] Hot Springs: Horse ? ? Electric
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Reading Transport Limited, [1] trading as Reading Buses, is an English municipal bus operator owned by Reading Borough Council, [2] serving the towns of Reading, Bracknell, Newbury, Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead, Wokingham and the surrounding areas in the counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Hampshire, as well as parts of Greater London.