Comments on: Trolleybus & Tram Routes (1947)

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:08:36 +0000

Take a look on here for some interesting info! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_London

By: Pete Williams

Pete Williams — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 19:40:33 +0000

Seems strange-the trams were removed because they were obstructing london’s motor traffic. Today, there is a segregated ‘cycle super highway’ along the thames embankment – exactly where the trams ran -and it’s causing a hundred times the obstruction that the trams caused.
Progress, Mr.Khan?

By: always last (@lastnotlost)

always last (@lastnotlost) — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:52:52 +0000

@citycyclists @psimonk @ToryCycling Tram map 1947 via https://t.co/yZq9rIu0GO https://t.co/gnXbgrGZbv

By: @squirrelpot

@squirrelpot — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:56:02 +0000

RT @lastnotlost: Great piece by @MapLondon of London’s 1947 tram and trolleybus network
https://t.co/yZq9rIu0GO
with big map
https://t.co/f…

By: @Wickyma

@Wickyma — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:23:56 +0000

@hera_putspace London’s trolleybus and tram routes, 1947. Night tube? You could go from Piccadilly to Beckenham all… https://t.co/60jbblLwzI

By: Alex Jenkins

Alex Jenkins — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:49:08 +0000

God, how I wish both trams and trolleybuses had been kept in London. Imagine how much cleaner the air would be with them instead of hundreds of diesel buses, and probably a load less cars as well, if the service was way more attractive than the current service using the aforementioned diesel buses.

By: @lastnotlost

@lastnotlost — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:32:20 +0000

Great piece by @MapLondon of London’s 1947 tram and trolleybus network
https://t.co/yZq9rIu0GO
with big map… https://t.co/wiL37PPtI4

By: @julie_ferret

@julie_ferret — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:03:24 +0000

Ooh what a smashing old map https://t.co/ueFfIqPy5K

By: MapPorn (@MapPornTweet)

MapPorn (@MapPornTweet) — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:58:14 +0000

Check this out: https://t.co/vl7uVgaXZQ @nevhomer

By: Catford_Cat

Catford_Cat — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:55:26 +0000

In reply to Edward Martineau.

Sorry, but your wife is right. Trams (and then the trolleybuses that replaced the north London part of the network) never got in to much of the west end – Victoria (Vauxhall Bridge Road) and Tottenham Court Road / Warren Street were the closest they got.

Basically, the wealthier areas of London did not want trams on their patch.

By: Edward Martineau

Edward Martineau — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:43:14 +0000

I cannot see from the first map above whether a trolleybus route ran along Piccadilly. I have a memory of one turning left onto Piccadilly out of Lower Regent Street – but my wife says there never was one that ran along Piccadilly! The map is tantalising…..I cannot get it to zoom enough to see the detail. If my memory is correct, can you tell me the number of the trolleybus in question, please? Or am I remembering a tram, instead?

By: Ollie

Ollie — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:54:08 +0000

In reply to Shirley Pugh. Ebay is probably the best way to find this map, unless it is available at the London Transport Museum shop.