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TommyRob

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Registered: November 2010
Location: Gravesend UK
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A 1950's view of a trolley bus outside KGV Dock with BI's Uganda in the dry dock.

· Date: Tue, 12 November 19 · Views: 240
· Filesize: 45.5kb, 117.1kb · Dimensions: 1023 x 706 ·

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Gordon Steel
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Registered: January 2008
Location: Larkhall
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Tue, 12 November 19 10:26

Silent death they were!!!!

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Dartskipper

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Location: Bedford
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Tue, 12 November 19 16:23

Looks like an L3 Class trolleybus, on the run to North Woolwich from Stratford Broadway. Withdrawn from this service when 80 vehicles based at West Ham were transferred away to the Finchley and Highgate depots on 2nd and 3rd February, 1960. They were replaced by Routemasters.

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Roy Kennedy

TommyRob

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Thu, 14 November 19 19:27

Thanks Roy - I remember it happening but had forgotten the date. The river front at North Woolwich was a very generous area accommodating both loading and discharge of vehicles from the ferry and the turning circle necessary for the trolley buses.