December 4, 1933
Operations officially began for trolleybus system in the town of Huddersfield in northern England. The public officials who took part in the brief ceremony marking this transportation milestone included Albert Hirst (1865-1941), who had become mayor of Huddersfield earlier that year and would serve in the position until 1935.
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reported that, while addressing the large crowd gathered for the occasion, Hirst characterized the day “a red letter one” for transit services in the town. Over the next several years, these trolleybuses gradually replaced the tramway network that was introduced in Huddersfield in 1883. This tramway network was ultimately phased out altogether in 1940.
The Huddersfield trolleybus system eventually encompassed a total of 15 routes and a fleet of up to 140 vehicles. The final trolleybus run for this system occurred on July 13, 1968. Three of the vehicles that had been used for those routes can now be seen at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft in central England. (The accompanying photo of a Huddersfield trolleybus in service was taken in 1966.)
Photo Credit: Alan Murray-Rust / British Trolleybuses – Huddersfield / CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
For more information on the Huddersfield trolleybus system, please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Huddersfield
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