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London Trolleybus Wiring - North
By
Keith
Farrow
This is the THIRD of a series of A5-sized
booklets examining the history of the overhead wiring provided for London trolleybuses,
which the author has arbitrarily divided geographically into an intended
five volumes. This particular one has 76 pages. The first two booklets in
this series - South West & West (salmon-coloured cover) and South East
& North West
(yellow-coloured cover) - are long since sold out.
Quite clearly,
an accurately detailed scale map of the whole (sadly erstwhile) London trolleybus system,
although it most certainly could be drawn, would take up probably most of
the ground floor plan area of the average British semi-detached suburban
house! This series of books simply deals with each and every junction,
short-turn facility, terminal arrangement and depot wiring layout. The
‘straight bits’ are not included! The intention is that while there are
still persons around having first hand knowledge and able to comment on
available pictorial evidence, the known history of each of these ‘special
work’ locations can be documented and that at the same time, all the
day-to-day features of the trolleybus system,
which were commonplace when it was in operation, are at least documented
so that they are not lost in the march of time. There are thus lots of
layout diagrams, monotone photographs to illustrate certain references,
and, typically, one or two small topics that it is pleasant to be reminded
of when they would not otherwise have been committed to paper! The reader
can rest assured that all the information presented has been most
carefully checked by reference to a number of well-known London trolleybus system
specialists, against huge photographic libraries and against surviving
records held by London Transport
Museum and the London
Trolleybus
Preservation Society.
The series author’s commitments in many
other directions in middle-life have meant that the series is taking much
longer to complete than originally envisaged. The checking process alone,
which each book goes through, is itself extensive and time consuming. We
know the series is immensely popular and that there is frustration at the
delay in publishing the last two volumes. In truth, both outstanding
volumes are having to be prepared together in order to complete the job.
What isn’t eventually in one will automatically be in the other, so to
speak. The present intention is that one will appear in Autumn 2001 and
the other in Autumn 2002 - We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, there
are not huge quantities left unsold of this third book in the series, so
it is rather a question of buy now rather than later if the subject
interests you.
Never mind environmentalists hating the
‘intrusiveness’ of tram and trolleybus overhead
line. It is now realised that it gives a very necessary visual message to
the public: ‘Here is your public transport – there will be one along in a
minute or two.’ There isn’t the same faith in buses!
Sorry, SOLD OUT
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