Derby CT 242, Osmaston Road, Derby, c1964

            Having passed the Derby Royal Infirmary (aka the D.R.I.), Derby trolleybus 242 descends the A514 Osmaston Road heading for Shelton Lock. Route 60 was a cross-town service that ran from Chaddesden (Chaddesden Park Road) a district to the North East of the City Centre to Shelton Lock, a small district to the South. 

This short section of Osmaston Road remains on split levels, and the stone wall still stands. Unfortunately, some of the nearer buildings in this shot have gone. To add to this, the Derby Royal Infirmary hospital complex that stood up the road to the right of picture, but out of view is also gone.

Trolleybus 242, a Roe bodied Sunbeam F4A, was numerically the penultimate trolleybus delivered new to Derby. Arriving in May 1960 along with sister 243, they were part of a batch of eight trolleybuses ordered by Derby in 1959 (numbered 236-243), delivered between February and May 1960. 

Only seven years old, all eight of these trolleybuses were withdrawn in 1967, the Derby's trolleybus system closing in  September 1967. Trolleybus 236 would be the last trolleybus to run under power, returning to Ascot Road depot just after midnight on 10th September 1967 in a glare of camera flash bulbs and cheers from well wishers.

Of those particular eight trolleybuses 236-243, seven were sold for scrap with 237 being saved for posterity through the efforts of private individuals. Today, trolleybus 237 survives in working order at the East Anglia Transport Musuem at Carlton Colville in Suffolk. 

In terms of surviving trolleybuses from the Derby system, Derby is reasonably well represented with five trolleybuses surviving in preservation. However, at the time of writing not all of these vehicles are available for public viewing and are stored in different locations around the country.
172 RC8472 1944 Sunbeam W4 / Weymann (utility) (Sandtoft)
175 RC8575 1945 Sunbeam W4 / Park Royal (utility) (Sandtoft?)
215 ARC515 1949 Sunbeam F4 / Brush (Stored in Staffordshire)
224 DRC224 1952 Sunbeam F4 / Willowbrook (EATM)
237 SCH237 1960 Sunbeam F4A / Roe (EATM)

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