Wellington: Roseneath with TBs in 1961 (2 pictures)

You have to look carefully to see the trolleys in these pictures. As a youth I
tended to sneak the objects of my affection into pictures meant for a wider
audience.

Wellington is hardly lacking in scenic trolleybus routes, but surely the most
spectacular was the now-vanished 14-15 running from Wadestown through the city
to Oriental Bay, Roseneath and Haitaitai. A 10-minute frequency was maintained
between Wadestown and Oriental Bay, 20-minute beyond. The Haitaitai end was
consisted of a major one-way loop, part of which is still utilised by the peak-
hour-only 5 running via the tunnel. But neither of these scenes is
reproduceable today.

1. Te Anau Road, between Haitaitai and Roseneath. A first-generation B.U.T. (I
think - I find it hard to distinguish between B.U.T. and Crossley) sports the
original "silver ghost" livery returning to Oriental Bay and the City along a
one-way section. Since it is signed for Wadestown, one would expect it to bear
route number 14 rather than 15.

2. A little farther north, another B.U.T. (late '50s vintage, perhaps?) heads
outbound towards Haitaitai along Grafton Road in Roseneath. The eastern suburb
of Miramar appears across Evans Bay in the distance.

Don Galt
Seattle USA

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