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Leyland LPTB70 K2 #1253
Built: 1939
Uploaded: 2010-07-02 20:35:06
Place: London / Greater London
Width: 900, Height: 1000
File size: 248.47kB
File size: 248.47kB
26 june 2010 - London (UK) – LT Museum, Covent Garden. When I was a small boy (yes, readers, I was once a small boy, incredible as it seems) the London trolleybus network was the largest in the world, but it was all gone by 1962. The buses were (almost) all three-axle double-deckers from a variety of makers and all had nice smiley faces on the front panel. This is a 1939 Type K2.
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- dvigar (195.93.21.*) (2010-07-03 00:04:17.7736)
These were magnificent buses - well built and smooth running. Also, LT kept them in fine condition, even though they were old. The problem that led to their withdrawal was mostly that all the electrical supply cables - built in the early 1900s fot the trams they replaced -had become very old and needed to be replaced. It was cheaper to replace them than to dig up the roads and put in new cables. Very sad.
- oberground.org (*.85.176.pool.telefonica.de) (2010-07-03 15:00:16.850621)
1962 (not 1972) was the last trolleybus in London, Dave! Lars
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