“The Glasgow Chronicles”
Screen-grab from a four-minute compilation of 1960s Glasgow transport scenes. The Glasgow Corporation Crossley-bodied BUT trolleybus is one of a large batch new in 1958 and is passing the Glasgow Street/Stockwell Street junction, topped and tailed by a Morris Minor 1000 and a Ford Zephyr 4. A scruffy BMC J4 van heads northwards. Glasgow was the last UK city to introduce trolleybuses, in 1949. The type did not earn the same affection that Glaswegians had for their beloved "Caurs" (trams), which the trolleybuses only outlasted by less than five years before their demise in 1967. Indeed, the city's many cyclists nicknamed the trolleybuses "Silent Death" - a sobriquet that applied in other UK cities at the time.
I estimate that this view dates from 1965. I think the railway in the background is the old Glasgow & South Western Railway line out of St. Enoch station, which closed in April 1966.
“The Glasgow Chronicles”
Screen-grab from a four-minute compilation of 1960s Glasgow transport scenes. The Glasgow Corporation Crossley-bodied BUT trolleybus is one of a large batch new in 1958 and is passing the Glasgow Street/Stockwell Street junction, topped and tailed by a Morris Minor 1000 and a Ford Zephyr 4. A scruffy BMC J4 van heads northwards. Glasgow was the last UK city to introduce trolleybuses, in 1949. The type did not earn the same affection that Glaswegians had for their beloved "Caurs" (trams), which the trolleybuses only outlasted by less than five years before their demise in 1967. Indeed, the city's many cyclists nicknamed the trolleybuses "Silent Death" - a sobriquet that applied in other UK cities at the time.
I estimate that this view dates from 1965. I think the railway in the background is the old Glasgow & South Western Railway line out of St. Enoch station, which closed in April 1966.