1960s Reading, Trolleybuses, UK Colour Footage

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1960s Reading, trolleybuses

[@leach1527]

Trolleybuses provided a wonderfully quiet , smooth and elegant form of transport. I was reunited with this form of transport on a recent trip to Budapest.

[@teviottilehurst]

I'm from Tilehurst, Reading. Moved out when I was 9. I remember riding on on a Reading Corporation trollybus around 67 when I was 6. Recall it breaking down and waiting a long time for the bus to restart in Oxford Road. My hometown still has a special place in my heart. Video brings back so many good memories. Thanks.

[@rodneymiles8501]

Hi all I remember the trolley buses to tilhurst when I was a kid I live in Australia have fond memories of the trolleys

[@johnfinnerty3214]

I remember the fuss around the last trolley bus along the Oxford road in about 1968. There are still trolley bus poles in Kent wood hill bearing street lights.

[@alistairkinnear8737]

My home town. I took the #17 from TiIehurst to Reading with my Dad on weekends.

[@carsyourdaddrove]

Exactly the same here - except it was with my mum and it was a Leyland Olympian, then Titan, then a Scania.

[@AmiHoss66]

How in the World have we gone BACKWARDS? An electric clean / environmental Trolley bus operating almost 60 years ago in a town centre. We need to take a long hard look at our so called Modern selves (actually backwards thinking).