The Brighton trolleybus system formerly served the
town
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of
Brighton, East Sussex, England. Opened on ,
it gradually replaced the
Brighton Corporation Tramways network.
By the standards of the various now defunct
trolleybus
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systems in the United Kingdom, the Brighton system was a moderately sized one, with a total of nine routes.
It was also unusual, in that it had two operators.
The main operator of the system was Brighton Corporation Transport, which owned the wires, and at its peak had a fleet of 52 trolleybuses. The other operator,
Brighton, Hove & District Omnibus Co. Ltd., introduced a fleet of eight trolleybuses to the system on with three more following later, and ran them on four of the system's routes.
The whole system was closed relatively early, on .
Two of the former Brighton trolleybuses are now preserved. One is at the
Science Museum
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annexe at
Swindon, and the other is at the
East Anglia Transport Museum
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,
Carlton Colville
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, Suffolk.
The latter vehicle, no 52, is preserved in the livery of Maidstone Corporation, which acquired it and used it on the
Maidstone trolleybus system, following the closure of the Brighton system.
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See also
* Transport in Brighton and Hove
*List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
This is a list of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom by Home Nation and by regions of England. It includes:
*Past trolleybus systems in the UK.
*Museums in the UK capable of running trolleybuses (i.e. possessing overhead wires and trolleyb ...
References
Notes
Further reading
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External links
SCT'61 website
– photos and descriptions of Brighton Corporation trolleybuses and early motorbuses.
* ttp://www.trolleybus.co.uk/archive/ National Trolleybus Archivebr>British Trolleybus Society
based in Reading.
National Trolleybus Association
based in London.
Brighton
History of Brighton and Hove
Brighton
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