Bradford Trolleybuses 1970, 1971 and 1972 - including the last day 

Unfortunately Leeds and Bradford have missed out on the new trams. Hopefully they'll come in the future.

Having moved from West Yorkshire to Staffordshire, I'd happily go back. It may not be as good as places like Manchester, Birmingham or London, but it's infinitetly better transport wise than where I am now.

Absolutely right about the oil crisis, Neville, but in fairness nobody predicted the Arab/Israeli conflict at that time. If only the trolleybuses had lasted a little longer, the economic case for abandonment would have collapsed. My dad worked for Bradford Council at the time, and he told me that the Bradford hills played havoc with the clutches and gearboxes of the replacement Leyland Atlanteans leading to much higher maintenance costs than anticipated.

Same thing goes for Belfast, which had the largest network outside of London. The trolleybuses were overtaking the diesel buses which struggled to climb the hills.

Its the people here that made it bad unfortunately.

IIRC double deckers busses are fairly unique to 🇬🇧.

I came across trolleybuses in Switzerland and assumed they were some sort of advanced technology and was amazed to discover we had had them here in the UK, but they had all been discontinued.

Yes CH, it did, we all lamented it at the time…..eventually they’ll be back in one form or another, Bradford today is unrecognisable……

I remember them because I was doing a lot of work around Bradford at the time, fitting oil fired burners to the boilers at the various swimming and slipper baths - Windsor, Drummond Road, and Thornton spring to mind. The trolley buses were ideal on Bradford's hills because their electric motors gave them immense torque, and they didn't leave a trail of diesel smoke !

C,I It's Bradford. Regression is what we do.

I think you and me both know the answer to that question.

@@SandyYoung1 I hope you don't mean Asian immigration. Think about it, at the time of this video most of the populace including the new migrants were all working in the industries, contributing to the local economy. The decline started not long after when Thatcher killed manufacturing. It's the Tories of the time who single handedly punished the W Yorkshire and the rest of the North into decline.

By stealth. One piece at a time making sure that the new is cheaper and nastier every time. Totally depressing, where is my country.

Gentrification and immigrants.

Thatcher the Milk Snatcher.

Wrong electricity production take lots of pollution than disel Engines

@@rohitmarkande244 true

@@rohitmarkande244 what about maintenance, ability to climb steep hills and the horrendous noise pollution of a Diesel engine

Harry Callahan the people’s have changed

@@throwow1014 Yep, you're not wrong, I still live there.. ☹️

soundseeker63 sadly this country is littered with short term thinking, besides trolley buses look at the railway network, you could even drive your cars onto a train and a plane

It's YaTB-3, and it sadly was not preserved. YaTB-1, on the other hand, was a single-decker that was restored and can be seen in St.Petersburg's museum of electric transport.

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Dave, the films were scanned on a converted cine projector, using a Raspberry Pi camera, and post processed to adjust colour and stability of the image.

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DEL BOY.

Graham, looks like a Reliant Rialto, either a 3/25 or 3/30 or R21E or R21E 700 but I'm no expert!

No scratch that it's a Reliant Regal, either a 3/25 or 3/30 or R21E or R21E 700 or something!

I thought it was a reliant robbin?

It's a reliant regal 3/30 . Common sight at that time, as it could be driven on a motorbike licence.

And to say hello to smelly fumes!

@@Isochest We'd already got "smelly fumes" with the old (red) West Yorkshire buses. Bradford Corporation (blue) buses were always newer and cleaner And you boarded them at the front! Ha ha!

@@joshrogan9981 Do carry on.

The handles are to change the direction the trolleybus goes - there are points in the overhead, like on train tracks.

One of them was on Duckworth Lane.

Thornbury, Leeds Road

steven rowe I thought the same but now have a battery car, battery technology is advancing at such a rate, they will increase in range and go down in price, now there are cobalt free batteries and a life of a million miles, my Kia niro ev does 250 miles no sweat, drive one you will become a convert .....honestly they are that good

@@pjohnson9576 you may be right, batteries are improving. I bought a new car last year a top line Corolla. I live in Aus and so distance are greater, Im sure in time they will be mainstream here. Also they are so expensive at present. I love the idea of electric, Les be honest we have all been forced into breathing petrochemical exhaust for as long as I can remember, also he noise factor Electric cars will not vibrate as much, require less maintenance plus brakes are need far less due to regenerative braking. As long as it is not made in China, we have been suckered into cheap Chinese imports and t does people of jobs

@@pjohnson9576 Yeah maybe not a Kia though

those were used in Moscow as well, but were scrapped in favor of single-deckers

Pigs like to live in pigsty's

Ok, BNP/EDL turd. Now crawl back under your stone 😊

@@WillScarlet1991 So he a turd for stating a fact, he left out no grooming going on apart from mr saville and it does look like a more welcoming place to live.

Mass immigration of Pakistani Muslims took place later on in the 1970s.

@@WillScarlet1991 Marxist imbecile

Everyone in this chat knows what’s wrong with Bradford now🤭...........