Trolleybuses in Bradford
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| Bradford trolleybus system | |
|---|---|
 A trolleybus in Bradford's city centre | |
| Operation | |
| Locale | Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
| Open | 1911 |
| Close | 1972 |
| Status | Closed |
| Routes | 17 |
| Infrastructure | |
| Electrification | (?) V DC parallel overhead lines |
| Stock | 187 (maximum) |
| Bradford Corporation Trolley Vehicles Order Confirmation Act 1912 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the Bradford Corporation Act 1910 relating to Bradford Corporation Trolley Vehicles. |
| Citation | 2 & 3 Geo. 5. c. cxviii |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 7 August 1912 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | West Yorkshire Act 1980 |
| Relates to | Bradford Corporation Act 1910 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Bradford Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1925 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Bradford Corporation Act 1910 relating to Bradford Corporation trolley vehicles. |
| Citation | 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. xi |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 27 March 1925 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | West Yorkshire Act 1980 |
| Relates to | Bradford Corporation Act 1910 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Bradford Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1928 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Bradford Corporation Act 1910 relating to Bradford Corporation trolley vehicles. |
| Citation | 18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. lxvi |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 3 August 1928 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | West Yorkshire Act 1980 |
| Relates to | Bradford Corporation Act 1910 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Bradford Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1930 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
| |
| Long title | An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Bradford Corporation Act 1910 relating to Bradford Corporation Trolley Vehicles. |
| Citation | 20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. cxxxix |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 1 August 1930 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | West Yorkshire Act 1980 |
| Relates to | Bradford Corporation Act 1910 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Bradford Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1953 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
 | |
| Long title | An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Bradford Corporation Act 1910 relating to Bradford Corporation trolley vehicles. |
| Citation | 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. xxi |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 14 July 1953 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | West Yorkshire Act 1980 |
| Relates to | Bradford Corporation Act 1910 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Bradford Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1954 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
| |
| Long title | An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation under the Bradford Corporation Act, 1910, relating to Bradford Corporation trolley vehicles. |
| Citation | 2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. xxxvii |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 30 July 1954 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | West Yorkshire Act 1980 |
| Relates to | Bradford Corporation Act 1910 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Bradford Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1958 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to confirm Bradford a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Corporation Transport and Civil Aviation under the Bradford Corporation Act 1910 relating to Bradford Corporation trolley vehicles. |
| Citation | 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. xxix |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 23 July 1958 |
| Other legislation | |
| Relates to | Bradford Corporation Act 1910 |
The Bradford trolleybus system served the city of Bradford, Yorkshire, England for much of the 20th century. It was one of the first two trolleybus systems to be opened in the United Kingdom, along with the Leeds system.[1][2]
Both systems commenced operations on 20 June 1911.[1][2] However, the public service on the Bradford system did not start until four days later.[1][2] The Bradford system lasted the longest of all the UK's urban trolleybus systems.[2] Having been one of the first two such systems to open, it was also the last one to close, on 26 March 1972.[1] Just before its closure, it was also the longest-lived surviving trolleybus system in the world, but with the Bradford closure that distinction passed to the Shanghai, China, trolleybus system, opened in 1914.[3]
Many of the former Bradford trolleybuses are now preserved at various locations around the UK, including eleven of them at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.[4]
See also
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References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d Joyce, James; King, John Stanley; Newman, A. G. (October 1986). British trolleybus systems. ISBN 978-0-7110-1647-7.
- ^ a b c d Bruce, Ashley. "British Trolleybus Systems". British Trolleybuses website. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ^ "Shanghai Anniversary" (November–December 2004). Trolleybus Magazine No. 258, pp. 134–135. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.
- ^ Zebedee, John (30 November 2010). "A List of Preserved Trolleybuses in the UK". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
Further reading
[edit]- Brearley, Harold (1960). A History of Bradford Trolleybuses. Lingfield, Surrey, UK: Oakwood Press.
- Brearley, Harold (1961). History of Bradford Trolley Buses, 1911-1960. Lingfield, Surrey, UK: Oakwood Press.
- King, John Stanley (1972). Transport of delight: the Bradford trolleybus, 1911-1972. Guildford, Middlesex, UK: National Trolleybus Association. ISBN 978-0-85024-005-4.
- King, J.S. (1994). Bradford Trolleybuses. Glossop, Derbyshire, UK: Venture Publications. ISBN 978-1-898432-03-6.
- Lockwood, Stephen (2003). Bradford Trolleybuses. Midhurst, West Sussex, UK: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-904474-19-7.
- Lumb, Geoff (2003). Bradford and its Trolleybuses. Colour Prestige series, no. 2. Glossop, Derbyshire, UK: Venture Publications. ISBN 978-1-898432-94-4.
- Stainforth, J. A. L. (1974). The Bradford trolleybus system: being the history of Britain's first and last trolleybuses. Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK: West Riding Transport Society. ISBN 978-0-905043-00-5.
- Uden, M J (1971). Sixty years of Bradford Trolleybuses. Surrey, UK: National Trolleybus Association. ISBN 9781904474197. OCLC 219881275.
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