Table of Preserved British Trolleybuses in the British Isles
Believed to be correct at 25 February 2013
Location |
No. |
Fleet List |
| Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft,
Belton Road, and offsite storage at Thorpe-In-Balne |
48 |
Bournemouth 99 & 297
|
| East Anglia Transport Museum,
Chapel Road, |
13 |
Ashton Under Lyne 87 |
| Black Country Living Museum,
Tipton Road, |
4 |
Bradford 735 |
| Ipswich Transport Museum, Cobham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9JD |
6 | Ipswich 2; 9; 26; 46; 105 & 126 |
|
West Of England Transport Collection, Winkleigh, |
5 |
Bournemouth 212 |
| Private Ownership – Boughton, Notts. | 5 |
Derby 224 |
| Cardiff & S. Wales Trolleybus Project,
East Cardiff, |
3 | Bradford 704 Cardiff 243 & 262 |
| London Transport Museum, Acton & Covent Garden London |
3 |
London 1 & 1768 (Acton) |
| Hastings Trolleybus Restoration Group
Bexhill-on-Sea, |
1 |
Hastings 3 Hastings No. 3 was fitted with a Commer TS3 diesel engine in 1960 but retains both trolleybus chassis and bodywork. |
| Featherstone, South Staffordshire |
1 | Derby 215 (Private) |
| Greater Manchester Transport Museum, Boyle Street, Cheetham, Manchester |
2 | Ashton under Lyne 80
Manchester 1250 |
| Keighley Bus Museum, Riverside Depot, Keighley, West Yorkshire |
2 | Bradford 844 Keighley 5 |
| Science Museum, Wroughton, Nr. Swindon, |
2 | Brighton & Hove 6340 Ipswich 44 |
| Tramway Museum Society Ireland,
Castleruddery, |
1 | Bournemouth 299 |
| Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, Holywood, Co. Down, N.I. |
2 | Belfast 98 Belfast 112 |
| NTA Raunds, Northants | 1 | Hastings 45 |
| B&MMOT, Wythall, N. Warwickshire |
1 | Wolverhampton 616 |
| Warnham, Sussex | 1 | Belfast 168 (NTA) |
| Bradford Industrial Museum,
West Yorkshire |
1 | Bradford 737 |
| Glasgow Museum of Transport | 1 | Glasgow TBS 13 |
| Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum | 1 | Teesside 5 |
| Hampshire County Council Store, Porchester | 1 | Portsmouth 201 |
| National Transport Museum of Ireland Howth, Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
1 | Belfast 183 |
| NMGW, Nantgarw |
1 | Cardiff 215 |
| North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, Co. Durham |
2 |
Keighley 12 Newcastle 501 |
| NTA Ashton, Northants |
1 | Wolverhampton 654 |
| Private Ownership – Glasgow | 1 | Glasgow TBS 21 |
| Private Ownership – North East Aircraft Museum, Washington, Sunderland | 1 | Bradford 835 |
| Rotherham Trolleybus Group,
Burton upon Trent, |
1 | Rotherham 73 |
| Private Ownership - Wath, Barnsley |
1 | Bradford 713 |
| Totals – Locations 30 | 114 | Operators 30 |
NB. British vehicles preserved overseas are NOT included.
John Zebedee thanks all those who kindly replied to his enquiries – too numerous to mention individually.


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