----- Original Message ----- From: "BARRY HOLLAND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Subtle (or not so subtle) abuse was: Re: Boating - the Fred Carneau way Pt 1> > > Brian Dominic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Default] On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 > 10:55:56 +0000 (GMT), BARRY HOLLAND > finished tucking into their plate of > fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last > of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote:: > >>Greatly enjoyed looking at these old buses.<snip>. > > I used to do the opposite: when I was travelling across Nottingham > from junior school to home (I'd stayed at the school as I'd only got a > year left when we moved out of the catchment area). I used to "drop > off" the rear platform of the trolleybus as it slowed down to > negotiate the overhead junction at the end of Broad Marsh.<snip> > > Sounds just as exciting, Brian. For some reason though, I can't picture > trolley buses with an open-door arrangement as on the > diesel ones. Mind you this is from someone who, at the age of 6 or 7 was > absolutely gobsmacked to see one day that trolley buses > had a driver! With child-like logic I reasoned that, if the wires went round > the corner, then the bus must *surely* follow! :-)) > Barry > Nb whenwewereyoung
I remember about 40 years ago it was common on the downhill part of the route from Whiston into Saint Helens that the Trolley Buses used to take the wide bend too near the curb & the trolley came off the wires. I cannot remember if the trolleybus could use gravity to get back on route or if it needed towing! Dave Croft Warrington http://oldengine.org/members/croft/homepage http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
