BulwellBrian

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  1. Since finding this forum I have been thinking of my years in Nottingham, one thing I remember is the variety of buses colours and shapes that were about in the fifties.

    The ubiquitous green corporation buses & trollybuses, the West Bridgeford buses in the market square brown and cream I think, red Trent and a different red Barton buses, blue Notts & Derby trollybuses and Midland General motors with letters & number route numbers, Gash buses to Newark from Huntingdon Street, United Counties to London, East Midland Motor Services to Chesterfield, Midland Red to Birmingham, Halls to South Shields, and I see I have forgotten the South Notts from Broad Marsh.

    Do you remember the old single decker converted to a tea bar that the Corporation Transport parked at the Trent Bridge terminus?

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  2. Think I've sussed it, or rather littlebro has, was thinking of that location but the "approaching valley road" on original site put me off, it IS on valley road. Can remember the house behind the petrol pumps, and the chap who lived there had owned house and garage since pre ww2, my mother knew him, around 1970 it was not as seen in photo but typical 1950/60's filling station however think again altered before latest tesco filing station/supermarket abortion, (NEVER go there for petrol, you'll put a gallon in then wait god knows how long whilst the locals put their weekly shopping through the till before your turn! Heres another even odder as picture the past says Ripley Bus on Hucknall Road Basford? dated 1953, no idea on this oneDCCS000068ripley.jpg

    I have now found the photo in a book, the caption is "Single-decker AEC 306 on the long run to Ripley, turns into Gregory Boulevard from Mansfield Road, on a wet & miserable day in Nov 1933. Note the Nottingham Corporation balcony tram on the left on its way north to Arnold, and the bus sign on the right which uses the term "Railless". There were 10 of these single deckers.

  3. My mistake was mixing them up with ones in Hull, I do actually remember a single decker trolley bus running on the 36 route, I think on some trial/exchange from Scotland, not too sure if not a "bendy" type? Do remember it was bright orange though, would have been pre 1955

    I saw the orange single decker in Bulwell Market, I think it was long but not bendy. It had a sticker in the window "On hire to Nottingham Transport".

  4. Yes, at Northgate/Haydn Rd/Nottingham Rd junction there was a similar lever and conductress(usually a female) would hop off and run along side bus to pull and hold handle before bus reached the "points" if a 37 which turned there, assume some spring loaded arrangement which in normal position allowed "main route open"? in that case for a 36 or 41, It would appear the turnaround at peveril st was in fact as per a railway turntable and not a terminus then?

    Both the Peveril Street and Eland Street turnrounds were not regularly used they were for emergencies only. The Peveril Street one was not a turntable, the road junction was wide enough for the trolly to turn. Not so much traffic in those days!

  5. The "points" on the trolly wires were either pull operated by a poll rod on the adjacent pole or were operated by a detector on the wire when the trolly went over taking power the point went one way, if the trolly coasted over, the point went the other way. There were lamps st the top of the pole to tell the driver which way the point was set. The ones at Canning Circus were like that. The pull ones were at less busy junctions. In Bulwell the 43/44 junction on Highbury Road hill was one it couldn't be automatic, you couldn't accelerate on the hill! Others were at the end of Piccadilly to get into the depot.

  6. I lived near Bulwell Common and saw the dido many many times in the 1950's and early 1960's. Monday to Saturday it normally ran via the GC/GN connection at the bottom of the golf course through Bestwood. On Sundays it went via the GC main line over the viaduct.

    Locos I remember were C12 67363 and N7 69651 & 69695. The last one I can remember was standard 84007, but there were others including LMS Ivatt 2-6-2T's. Eventually it became a Trent bus.

  7. Re the Cinderhill Road LMS (MR)bridge, it didn't go anywhere anymore. It used to go to Bennerley but was closed many years ago, the last traffic was proberbly from Bulwell colliery closed before nationalisation, and possibly Sankeys flower pot works.

    Just through the bridge on the left was a footpath which crossed the Mansfield line by a footbridge you could the get up to Highbury Road. I don't know if it is still there.

    The LNER (GNR) bridge was much taller, a red brick arch.

  8. The trollybus in post 1 is just a trollybus, thats what the 1930's trollys looked like.

    The single decker post 10 has a RB registration, I think that was Derbyshire, Notts & Derby Traction had a second route from Ripley to Ilkeston could the single decker be on that route.

    Post 24 is a 1930's NCT trolly.