Locale Cardiff, Wales Routes 14 | Status Closed | |
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Open 1 March 1942 (1942-03-01) Close 11 January 1970 (1970-01-11) Operator(s) Cardiff Corporation Transport | ||
The Cardiff trolleybus system once served Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. Opened on 1 March 1942 (1942-03-01), it gradually replaced the Cardiff tramway network.
By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Cardiff system was a medium-sized one, with a total of 14 routes, and a maximum fleet of 79 trolleybuses. It was closed on 11 January 1970 (1970-01-11).
Four of the former Cardiff trolleybuses are now preserved. Two of them are at the premises of the Cardiff & South Wales Trolleybus Project in East Cardiff, one is at the National Collections Centre of the National Museum Wales, Nantgarw, and the other one is at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, England.
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Trolleybuses in Cardiff Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA