British Trolleybus Society

Table of Preserved British Trolleybuses in the British Isles

Believed to be correct at  25 March 2010

Location

No.

Fleet List

Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft,

Belton Road,
Sandtoft,
Nr. Doncaster,
North Lincolnshire DN8 5SX

and offsite storage at Thorne

44

Bournemouth 99
Bradford 562; 703; 706; 743; 746; 758; 792; 834; 845; 846 & 847
Cardiff 203
Cleethorpes 54; 59
Derby 172
Doncaster 375
Glasgow TB78
Hastings 57
Huddersfield 541; 619 & 631
London 1812
Maidstone 56 & 72
Mexborough & Swinton 34
Newcastle 501
Nottingham 367; 466; 493 & 506
Reading 113; 144; 174; 181 & 193
Rotherham 37 & 44*
South Shields 204
St. Helens 387
S.Yorkshire PTE 2450
Teesside 2
Walsall 342*
Walsall 864.

* stored at Thorpe

East Anglia Transport Museum,

Chapel Road,
Carlton Colville,
Nr. Lowestoft,
Suffolk NR33 8BL

12

Ashton Under Lyne 87
Bournemouth 202 & 286
Derby 224
Hastings 34
London 260; 1201; 1521
Maidstone 52
Manchester 1344
Newcastle 628
Portsmouth 313

Black Country Living Museum,

Tipton Road,
Dudley,
West Midlands.

8

Belfast 246
Bournemouth 297
Bradford 735
Derby 237
Teesside T291
Walsall 862
Wolverhampton 78 & 433

Ipswich Transport Museum,
Cobham Road,
Ipswich,
Suffolk, IP3 9JD
6 Ipswich 2; 9; 26; 46; 105 & 126
Bournemouth Heritage Transport,
Parkstone,
Dorset
4 Bournemouth 212
Bradford 711 & 712
Notts & Derby 353
Private Ownership – Boughton, Notts. 4 Nottingham 502 & 578
Notts & Derby 307 & 357
Cardiff & S. Wales Trolleybus Project,

East Cardiff,
South Wales.

3 Bradford 704
Cardiff 243 & 262
London Transport Museum,
Acton,
London
3 London 1; 1253 & 1768
Hastings Trolleybus Restoration Group

Bexhill-on-Sea,
East Sussex

2

Hastings 3**  & 45

** 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,
Wilts.

2 Brighton & Hove 6340
Ipswich 44
Tramway Museum Society Ireland,

Castleruddery,
Ireland

2 Bournemouth 299
London 1348
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum,
Cultra,
Holywood,
Co. Down, N.I.
2 Belfast 98
Belfast 112
Aston Manor Road Transport Museum,
Witton Lane,
Birmingham B6 6QE
1 Walsall 872
B&MMOT,
Wythall,
N. Warwickshire
1 Wolverhampton 616
Big Garage,
Wolverhampton
1 Belfast 168 (NTA)
Bradford Industrial Museum,

West Yorkshire

1 Bradford 737
British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland,
Lancashire
1 Bournemouth 301
Glasgow Museum of Transport 1 Glasgow TBS 13
Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum 1 Teesside 5
Milestones Museum,
Basingstoke
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
1 Keighley 12
NTA Ashton,
Northants
1 Wolverhampton 654
Private Ownership – Glasgow 1 Glasgow TBS 21
Private Ownership – Huddersfield 1 Bradford 835
Rotherham Trolleybus Group,

Burton upon Trent,
Staffordshire

1 Rotherham 73
Private Ownership - Huddersfield 1 Bradford 713
Westgate Transport Museum,
Belton,
Nr. Sandtoft
1 Derby 175
Totals – Locations 31 114 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.