General view from E showing trolley-bus crossing bridge
SC 796281
Description General view from E showing trolley-bus crossing bridge
Date 8/1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796281
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Motor bus crossing Cart Bridge, Clarkston Road, Glasgow This view from the south-east, taken in September 1964 from Cathcart Station, shows a motor bus crossing Cathcart Bridge, built to carry tram tracks in 1901-2. The bus has an open platform at the rear, typical of Glasgow's tramway and trolley bus replacement buses until 1961. The last tram service to be replaced by trolley buses was the No 12, in 1958, but the system was phased out in 1967. In 1964 there were still trolley buses operating across Cart Bridge as far as Muirend on service No 105. When Glasgow Corporation began to replace its tram routes, in 1949, they chose to use trolley buses, like many other municipalities, as they owned a large electric power station for the tramways. Eventually eight services were converted before more advanced motor buses made trolley buses unattractive. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT192
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