page_title: Trolleybuses in Newcastle upon Tyne
hierarchical_section_title: Trolleybuses in Newcastle upon Tyne
caption_attribution_description: English: British Trolleybuses - Newcastle upon Tyne. A trolleybus arrives at was then the terminus of the Elswick Road service at Benwell. Earlier, services continued beyond this point to Denton. This is the junction of Benwell Lane with Delaval Road to the right. The trolleybus will pull forward across the junction and then reverse into Delaval Road before pulling on to the departure stop (behind the lollipop man). The idea of making this sort of manoeuvre in this day and age would be unthinkable, but at that stage it was still a common practice. The presence of the lollipop man shows that this would be school finishing time, but there is nothing like the amount of traffic that there would be today. Postscript: even in 2009, the traffic seems to be quite light; the astonishing thing is how little the scene has changed 1236701 For a slide show of British Trolleybuses in the late '60s: https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1773236&amp;displayclass=slide
context_page_description: The Newcastle upon Tyne trolleybus system once served the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Opened in 1935, it gradually replaced the Newcastle tram network.
  By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Newcastle system was a large one, with a total of 28 routes, and a maximum fleet of 204 trolleybuses. It finished on 2 October 1966.
  Two of the distinctive yellow-liveried former Newcastle trolleybuses are now preserved, one at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, Suffolk, and the other LTN 501 at Beamish Open Air Museum sometimes on loan to The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.
context_section_description: The Newcastle upon Tyne trolleybus system once served the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England.  Opened in 1935, it gradually replaced the Newcastle tram network.
  By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Newcastle system was a large one, with a total of 28 routes, and a maximum fleet of 204 trolleybuses.  It finished on 2 October 1966.
  Two of the distinctive yellow-liveried former Newcastle trolleybuses are now preserved, one at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, Suffolk, and the other LTN 501 at Beamish Open Air Museum sometimes on loan to The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.
caption: Newcastle trolleybus at the Delaval Road terminus, Benwell, June 1966
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