The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, near Doncaster held an event to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the British Trolleybus Society over the Bank Holiday Weekend. I attended on the Saturday, when we were blessed with a fair amount of sunshine, which was a bonus. I also saw some busses that I'd not seen in operation on my previous two visits. This is the first - Reading 113, heading back to the main square on one of its circuits of the site. 28/8/21. Reading 113 dates from 1938 and is an AEC chassis with a Park Royal body.
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Another bus that I'd not seen in operation before was South Shields 204, here waiting at the Regal Cinema bus stop before a tour of the circuit. 28/8/2021. I have to say that I wasn't a total fan of the livery, finding it a bit garish. Still, like all the busses at Sandtoft, we're very fortunate that all these busses have survived and can be seen and ridden on in 2021. They could all too easily have been lost if it wasn't for the foresight of the Trolley Bus Society (and others) in preserving them.
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South Shields 204 sets out on a tour of the circuit on the 28th August 2021. The bus is built on a Karrier chassis with Weymann bodywork and it was restored to service in 2005
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Reading 113 pulls up to the bus terminus on the 28th August 2021. The Sandtoft site is excellent in providing period backdrops against which to photograph the busses. I especially like this row of shops, which have a real 1950s look with in-keeping window displays.
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Reading 113 is seen at one end of a four bus line-up in the main square on the 28th August 2021. I didn't manage to get the full line-up in sun, but I wasn't that keen on it anyway, as these busses would never have been seen together in-period.
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