Trolleybuses in Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes trolleybus system

A former Grimsby/Cleethorpes trolleybus working on the Walsall system, September 1969
Operation
Locale Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England
Open 18 July 1937 (1937-07-18)
Close 4 June 1960 (1960-06-04)
Status Closed
Routes 1
Operator(s) Cleethorpes Corporation Transport
Infrastructure
Stock 13 (maximum)

The Cleethorpes trolleybus system once served the holiday resort of Cleethorpes, in Lincolnshire, England. Opened on 18 July 1937,[1][2] it replaced part of the Grimsby District Light Railway, a tramway that had served both Cleethorpes and the neighbouring seaport of Grimsby. It was closed on 4 June 1960.[1][2]

By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Cleethorpes system was a very small one, with only one route, and a maximum fleet of just 13 trolleybuses. It was operated jointly with the Grimsby trolleybus system.

History

Replacement of the Grimsby District Light Railway began in 1926, with the conversion into a trolleybus route of the branch tramway from Riby Square, Grimsby along Freeman Street, Grimsby. The second Grimsby trolleybus route, a replacement of the main tramway section between the Old Market Place in Grimsby and Kingsway in Cleethorpes, was not opened until November 1936.

The tramway, which had been taken over by the Cleethorpes Urban District Council in July 1936, continued to operate until mid-1937, with a reduced service between Riby Square and Cleethorpes. It closed on 17 July 1937, and the new Cleethorpes trolleybus system was inaugurated the next day,[1] operating jointly with the Grimsby system, on the Grimsby–Cleethorpes route, which was extended to Bathing Pool.[1]

Operation of both trolleybus systems was transferred to the Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport Joint Committee in 1957, but they were both closed soon afterwards, on 4 June 1960.[2] Some of their redundant trolleybuses then served on the Walsall system, until that system's closure in 1970. None of the former Grimsby/Cleethorpes trolleybuses is recorded as having survived.[3]


See also

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Joyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 59–61, 159. London: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-1647-X.
  2. 1 2 3 Short, Peter. "Former UK systems". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Zebedee, John (30 November 2010). "A List of Preserved Trolleybuses in the UK". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 4 April 2011.

Further reading

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