TROLLEYBUSES
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For some time trams and trolleybuses operated side by side particularly in the City Centre. This could lead to some complex overhead arrangements to ensure electrical isolation of positve and negative wires at crossings.
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The view above shows section insulators and crossings at the junction of Newton Street and Great Ancoats Street with a Crossley 4 wheel trolleybus on the 216 route to Ashton via Clayton.
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Piccadilly with trams, buses and a trolleybus on the 219 route to Ashton via Audenshaw.
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Ashton Crossley trolleybus No. 80 on the 219 to Manchester seen in Audenshaw.
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Manchester and Ashton Trolleybuses of both Crossley and BUT types at Chester Square Ashton in the late 1950s on the jointly operated 217 and 219 routes to Manchester and Haughton Green via Guide Bridge.
Manchester commenced a programme of conversions to trolleybus operation in the 1930s and even built a new depot on Rochdale Road to house the new fleet. Routes reached out to Greenheys (near to Manchester City's ground at Maine Road), Moston, Stalybridge, Haughton Green and Gee Cross near Hyde.
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Trolleybus 1176 and Leyland PD1 3370 at Moston on the 212 route from High Street.
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The Hyde Road routes were the preserve of the Crossley 6 wheelers. Trolleybus 1251 is seen here on Portland Street on a 210 route short working to Denton. The short working is denoted by the 'X' suffix on the route number.
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