[Default] On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:05:06 +0000 (GMT), BARRY HOLLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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::
>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! >:-)) Where were you looking at trolleybuses? Reading had front-entrance ones (as did Bradford, Cardiff and Bournemouth) but these were all new and fairly uncommon. Nottingham stuck to open rear platforms, as when the last batch were built in 1948 this was still the norm. Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk (Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005)
