Wellington trolleybus news

With some trepidation, I attach three of the promised trolleybus-related
pix.

1 The old bus yards: those who came over for the Trolleybus Festival 3 years
ago will remember the bus storage yard at Kilbirnie, which was the centre of
the Festival. Subsequently the City Council sold the whole site - the
storage yard and the spare workshops building where the preparation of the
Festival vehicles took place were sold to a local developer of ghettoes for
the elderly. The remainder of the 1927-era tram sheds and workshops building
was sold to Stagecoach (which had been renting the whole site anyway) and
now all the bus and trolleybus storage as well as workshop functions take
place indoors - it is a tight squeeze. In the photo, the brick building on
the yard site at the left is not a gaol but Stage 1 of the aforementioned
oldies "home" (the Melbourne Remand Centre in Spencer St is prettier, IMHO),
the Stagecoach operations centre is the boxy bluish building, and the
workshops complex is the sawtooth-roof building behind it. The workshops
complex is quite original, down to having quite a lot of the 4' gauge tram
track still in situ.
2 This is the pneumatic retriever and pole base obtained from China for the
new prototype. Graeme Butler is standing on the mounting flange to keep it
in its normal orientation. The springs have been slackened off.
3 This is a rather-too-close-up photo of an operational pair of these bases
mounted on the roof of the experimental Citibus trolleybus in Hong Kong. I
took the photo last December, perched on top of an extension ladder, when I
visited the depot at Ocean Park, Wong Chuk Hang, where the trolleybus and
test circuit were located.

Now I just hope the photos are properly formatted and I don't cause a virus
scare ...

Cheers,

Brent Efford
TechMedia Services
Co-ordinator, Transport 2000+ NZ
PO Box 2626, Wellington 6015
New Zealand
[email protected]
Ph (04) 801 9331, Fx (04) 801 9344
Mob 025 887 387
www.techmedia.co.nz


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