Trolleybuses in Newcastle upon Tyne

The Newcastle upon Tyne trolleybus system once served the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Opened in 1935,[1][2] it gradually replaced the Newcastle tram network.

Newcastle upon Tyne trolleybus system
Newcastle trolleybus at the Delaval Road terminus, Benwell, June 1966
Operation
Locale	Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Status	Closed
Routes	15
Operator(s)	Newcastle Corporation Transport
Infrastructure
Electrification	V DC parallel overhead lines
Depot(s)	Byker depot, Slatyford depot from 1956
Stock	140 (maximum)

By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Newcastle system was a large one, with a total of 28 routes, and a maximum fleet of 204 trolleybuses.[2] It finished on 2 October 1966 (1966-10-02).[1][2]

Two of the distinctive yellow-liveried former Newcastle trolleybuses are now preserved, one at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, Suffolk, and the other LTN 501 at Beamish Open Air Museum sometimes on loan to The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.[3]

See also

• Transport in Tyne and Wear
• List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom

References

Notes

1. Murray, Alan G. (2000). World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia. Reading: Trolleybooks. p. 73. ISBN 0-904235-18-1.
2. Short, Peter. "Former UK systems". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
3. Zebedee, John (27 March 2017). "Table of Preserved British Trolleybuses in the British Isles". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

Further reading

• Canneaux, TP; Hanson, NH (1985). The Trolley Buses of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1935-1966 (2nd revised ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle upon Tyne City Libraries. ISBN 978-0-902653-29-0. OCLC 59996885.
• Lockwood, Stephen (2006). Newcastle Trolleybuses. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-904474-78-4.

External links

• National Trolleybus Archive
• British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
• National Trolleybus Association, based in London