Trolleybuses in Belfast

Belfast trolleybus system

Belfast trolleybus on Shore Road, heading
towards the city centre, May 1968.
Operation
Locale Belfast, Northern Ireland
Open 28 March 1938 (1938-03-28)
Close 12 May 1968 (1968-05-12)
Status Closed
Routes 17
Operator(s) Belfast Corporation Tramways
Infrastructure
Stock 245 (maximum)

The Belfast trolleybus system once served the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the only trolleybus system ever to be built in Ireland. Opened on 28 March 1938,[1][2] it gradually replaced the Belfast tramway network.

The Belfast system was the second largest of all the now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, after the London system. It had a total of 17 routes, and a maximum fleet of 246 trolleybuses.[2] It was closed on 12 May 1968.[1][2]

Five of the former Belfast trolleybuses are now preserved. Two of them are based at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Holywood, County Down, one at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, Suffolk, and one at Warnham, Sussex. The fifth one is at the National Transport Museum of Ireland, in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.[3]


See also

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Joyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 22–26, 159. London: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-1647-X.
  2. 1 2 3 Short, Peter. "Former UK systems". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
  3. Zebedee, John (30 November 2010). "A List of Preserved Trolleybuses in the UK". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 18 March 2011.

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External links

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