Darlington Street, Wolverhampton c1955

            The trolleybus overhead in this view was later changed, so that a double set of wires ran down down Darlington Street. This was to make it possible for trolleybuses on the Whitmore Reans services to overtake parked trolleybuses on the Merry Hill, Finchfield and Tettenhall routes outside of Beatties Department store (left in picture). Thus enabling the Whitmore Reans bound trolleys to make the right turn at the junction with Waterloo Road without hinderence to the other services which carried on down Darlington Street. The switch that placed the Whitmore Reans trolleys booms onto their seperate section of wiring was situated outside of Burton's menswear shop, and was manually operated by their bus condutor's who nipped off and on the platform to pull the switch. 

On one occasion, a Whitmore Reans trolley had made the turn into Waterloo Road, when an old lady began banging her walking stick on the window behind the drivers cab. The driver pulled over and boarded the lower saloon, demanding why the woman was banging on the window behind him? The woman replied in a sarcastic tone, "you've left the conductor in Darlington Street!"

Taken on: November 11, 2012

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Darlington Street

Wolverhampton

beatties

1950s

austin seven

trolleybus

buron menswear

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Sets appears in: • Britain in the 1950s • Old Postcards more » • Trolleybuses • Wolverhampton • Wolverhampton Corporation Transport « less

Groups appears in: • Wolverhampton as it was. • Wolverhampton Corporation Transport

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