RE: Re: Trolley Bus Season is Open!
Brent Efford
Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:04 AM
OK -
here are 2 photos: the Wellington Cable Tram as promised, taken yesterday on its
100th birthday, and a line up of trolleybuses (at least 1 for every system that
ever ran in New Zealand) lined up for the grand parade for the Trolley Bus
Festival on 28 March 1999. The Festival was held to commemorate 50 years of
continuous trolleybus operation in Wellington. I have dozens of such
photos, but there is a limit to patience and bandwidth! Christchurch 210,
of 1931 vintage, in front (believed to be the oldest operating trolleybus in the
world).
There
is, or was, a Wellington trolleybus website, but it used a very obscure URL
which I lost when my PC was upgraded a while ago. I will try and find
it.
Cheers,
Brent Efford
-----Original Message-----
From: IS Edit [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, 23 February 2002 9:46 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Trolley Bus Season is Open!I'm in favour of covering trolley buses in NZ and Australia on this group.In much the same way as Peter's Muni History group covers trolley buses.The technology is very similar and they did the same sort of work, often for operators who also ran trams.Bob Murphy----- Original Message -----From: demondriver44Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 3:32 PMSubject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Trolley Bus Season is Open!-G'day Peter,there a few bits and pieces of trolleybus interest,contributed by WGB at [email protected],you may be interested to have a look.WGB,I am sure,could point you in the direction of some more specialised NZ trolleybus groups.I would be happy to see more trolleybus stuff on TDU as well,I would not regard it as off topic,what does everyone else think?We've had a Birney-a-ganza how about a Trolleybus-a-ganza?I know bugger all about them and would like to change that.PBruce.-- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "groompg" <groomp@s...> wrote:
> --- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Roy Winslow" <rwinslow@b...>
> wrote:
> > With all our talk about trams, it is easy to forget the hunble
> trolley bus,
> > or trackless trolley. . . . and Wellington of course still has 'em.
>
>
> How 'bout some pix and a brief description of the Wellington
> system? How long, how many coaches (sorry, buses), how
> many lines, why the lines survived, etc?? All I've seen is from
> decades ago.
>
> Peter Groom from San Francisco, the TC (always called "trolley
> coaches" in N America) capital of of the Pacific Rim.
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