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[leschip]

Could anyone help with this one?
What were the "outposts" of the system? I know the Prescot routes, but where did the other routes reach??

[Alan]

Les, there's a marvelous illustrated book called titled "St Helens Trolleybuses" by Geoff Sandford published by Regent Transport Publications that tells you everything you ever wondered about St Helens Trolleybuses. It'll be in the library.

Anyway, to answer your question, the outposts were Atherton, Huntsman at Haydock, Derbyshire Hill Road as far as junction with Fleet Lane, St Helens Junction, Rainhill/Prescot loop, Ackers Lane, Top of Dentons Green and Moss Bank

Edited by Alan, 07 December 2011 - 02:12 PM.

[leschip]

Alan, thanks for taking time to do this.

[non sibi sed omnibus]

Leschip-just in case you may not know.If you go to the Moss Bank Hotel and look across from it you will see what I believe is the last remaining TROLLEY BUS SHELTER!!!Its in a hell of a state though.Havnt any fotos unless someone else may know of one.

[Alan]

What intrigues me is why that No1 bus route travelled so far out of the borough. I mean Atherton must be 15 miles outside St Helens. All the other destinations are just two or three miles

[bridger]

Hope this works

http://www.geograph....k/photo/1800711

[tessmop]

Good one bridger,they should repair this,it's our heritage.

[gilly]

Coming from town about 100 yds before peasley cross lights(griffin corner) on the left is the last trolly bus post complete with a couple of the cable insulators on top

[Phyll]

I put that same photo on here not long ago, was not far from where I lived in Moss Bank.

Les, There are lots of threads on this, if you are interested. These are just a few.

http://www.sthelens-...__1#entry369183

http://www.sthelens-...__1#entry195548

http://www.sthelens-...__fromsearch__1

[non sibi sed omnibus]

thanx Phyll for giving these links.I did hope if you read the thread somewhere in your "stuff"you may as an ex Moss Banker have sssomething.
No the damage wasnt caused when I took my wife round that area learning to drive--oops!!!

just another little tidbit.I remember the little terminus they had at the BULLS HEAD ,PARR.There was also a little Police box in middle.Used to watch them get off bus and its overhead connect was transferred around so it could go round the wire back towards town.Used to listen to the brass band also practicing in the Bulls Head.It was a hive of activity around this little terminus as well.Again does someone have any fotos of the Bulls Head area??

[SKYMAN]

i was a Nutgrover at the time during the war years,
quite often you would hear the cry ,TROLLY HEAD OFF,
we would then dash to the YORK HOTEL and watch the driver take out the long
Bamboo pole and pull the gantry back onto the overhead cable,it was a bad bend
i think the driver sometimes forgot he was driving a trolly bus and took the bend abit too wide,

[jinx]

Trolly head off happened at Toll Bar often, possible when the driver thought he was going to Prescot and the clippie had to jump off the bus and manually pull the change over lever and the track changed over to the Rainhill side and off came the head.
Later converted to auto change over.

Reading a very early post about illuminated buses, I can faintly remember one coming down Lugsmore ln with a brass band playing onboard, It must have been a trolly bus as I cant remember any tram tracks down the lane, this could have been just pre-war
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Edited by jinx, 15 December 2011 - 04:40 PM.

[SKYMAN]

yes jinx the luminous trolly bus came up nutgrove im not sure wether it made the complete round trip
are not, a lovely sight . more so for us kids,

[tessmop]

Remember the trolley buses from when we moved out to Chiltern Road they were always comeing off the line, in winter with sparks flying,freezing foggy winters they were.Picture me in January 1952 dressed in one vest one liberty bodice three underskirts,yes three,leggings coat,hat and mufflers,scarfe around my mouth oh and not forgetting the mittens on a cord,only part of me visable was my eyes.