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The Reading trolleybus system served the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire and was owned by Reading Corporation, which had operated an electric tramway since 1901. As there was a need for major refurbishment of the tramway in the 1930s, they decided to replace it with a trolleybus network.
Reading Corporation decided to abandon the trolleybus system, and the routes were phased out between January 1967 and November 1968. [5] The UK's first contra-flow bus lane was instigated along Kings Road, when that road was made one-way in the early 1960s. The trolleybuses continued to operate two-way, as it was considered uneconomic to erect ...
The first trolleybus wiring erected was a training loop on Erleigh Road, which opened in early 1936. During World War II a trolleybus branch was constructed from the Oxford Road to Kentwood Hill, enabling trolleybuses to replace motor buses with a consequential saving in precious oil based fuel. Reading Corporation decided to abandon the ...
This is a route-map template for Trolleybuses in Reading, a trolleybus system in the United Kingdom.. For a key to symbols, see {{bus route legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The first trolleybus line was opened by the former Market Street Railway Company (MSR). The San Francisco Municipal Railway ("Muni") opened the second trolleybus line on 7 September 1941. MSR was absorbed by Muni on 29 September 1944. Most of the current trolleybus system was built to replace MSR tramway lines.
Broad Street, Reading, looking eastwards from an upper storey window, c. 1904. A tramcar heads eastwards, and two horse-drawn cabs wait in the middle of the road, by the trolley-pole. A plaque in Erleigh Road on the pavement outside Café YOLK, placed around 1903 to herald the arrival of the electric tram.
Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil Solaris trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden Video of a trolleybus in Ghent, Belgium. A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s [1] – or trolley [2] [3]) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded ...
A cargo trolleybus system in the 'Pobeda' collective farm, Lahoysk. [114] Mahilyow: 19 January 1970 Minsk: 19 September 1952 The second largest network in world (after Moscow); see also Trolleybuses in Minsk: Snov 1950s 1960s A cargo trolleybus system in the Kolkhoz named after Mikhail Kalinin. [115] Vitebsk: 1 September 1978