Lancashire United Transport Ltd : official time table - October 1952 : Leigh - Bolton Trolley Vehicle Service timetable
From the October 1952 issue of the Lancashire United Transport's timetables. The LUT had its origins in 1905 when the Lancashire United Tramways took over the ailing South Lancashire Tramways. Over time the majority of the company's operations were of bus and coach routes, as the Lancashire United Transport company although certain tram routes had been converted to trolleybus operation in the 1930s and these were under the aegis of the South Lancashire Transport Company. The network covered a large section of south Lancashire's industrial towns, King Cotton and King Coal being of great importance, and the company served many smaller industrial villages and towns.
They also operated many services in conjuction with the numerous municipal operators, including Salford, Bolton, Wigan, Warrington, Leigh and St. Helens and other company operations such as Ribble. Indeed with Bolton and St. Helens joint trolleybus operations were technically run - Bolton being a real oddity in that they 'owned' a small number of trolleybuses that were to all intents and purpose SLT vehicles. The timetable still, in places refers to them as 'trackless trolley 'buses'.
Like many such publications the timetables include adverts both for LUT's services, especially coach and private hires, as well as for local companies and shops. This page carries an advert for the two theatres then present in Bolton - The Grand and The Hippodrome - in the days before television cut the gound out from under such entertainment. The timetable - Monday to Saturday - shows the frequency of the intensive trolleybus (shown here as Trolley Vehicle and elsewhere as Trackless Trolleys) service connecting Bolton with Leigh via Atherton and the SLT trolleybus depot. It was the section of route to Four Lane Ends and Bolton town centre that saw Bolton Corporation Transport's technical 'ownership' of a small number of SLT trolleybuses.
Lancashire United Transport Ltd : official time table - October 1952 : Leigh - Bolton Trolley Vehicle Service timetable
From the October 1952 issue of the Lancashire United Transport's timetables. The LUT had its origins in 1905 when the Lancashire United Tramways took over the ailing South Lancashire Tramways. Over time the majority of the company's operations were of bus and coach routes, as the Lancashire United Transport company although certain tram routes had been converted to trolleybus operation in the 1930s and these were under the aegis of the South Lancashire Transport Company. The network covered a large section of south Lancashire's industrial towns, King Cotton and King Coal being of great importance, and the company served many smaller industrial villages and towns.
They also operated many services in conjuction with the numerous municipal operators, including Salford, Bolton, Wigan, Warrington, Leigh and St. Helens and other company operations such as Ribble. Indeed with Bolton and St. Helens joint trolleybus operations were technically run - Bolton being a real oddity in that they 'owned' a small number of trolleybuses that were to all intents and purpose SLT vehicles. The timetable still, in places refers to them as 'trackless trolley 'buses'.
Like many such publications the timetables include adverts both for LUT's services, especially coach and private hires, as well as for local companies and shops. This page carries an advert for the two theatres then present in Bolton - The Grand and The Hippodrome - in the days before television cut the gound out from under such entertainment. The timetable - Monday to Saturday - shows the frequency of the intensive trolleybus (shown here as Trolley Vehicle and elsewhere as Trackless Trolleys) service connecting Bolton with Leigh via Atherton and the SLT trolleybus depot. It was the section of route to Four Lane Ends and Bolton town centre that saw Bolton Corporation Transport's technical 'ownership' of a small number of SLT trolleybuses.