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原文传递 Furtive blind turners remember their trolleys

题名：	Furtive blind turners remember their trolleys
正文语种：	eng
作者：	ALAN MILLAR
摘要：	The third of Hugh Taylor's planned series of four books about London Transport's 21 trolleybus depots provides over 250 black and white and 31 colour views in the depots or of the routes worked from four in the north: Stonebridge Park, Colindale, Finchley and Wood Green, complete with plan drawings of the layouts of all four. As with the earlier volumes (Reviews, January 2018 and January 2019), there are details of when trolleybuses operated there, the types allocated and routes served. Wood Green closed in November 1961, the other three in January 1962. They reached other parts of London including Clapham Junction, Hammersmith and Acton. The photographs, some from the London Transport Museum and many others taken by enthusiasts, stretch from the 1930s to the end of operations and include some wonderful period street scenes capturing ways of life that have disappeared. A few also predate the introduction of trolleybuses and show the trams that they replaced as part of London Transport's 1935-40 New Works Programme. Twenty pages of the book are devoted to John Carwardine's recollections of the last couple of years of what had been the world's largest trolleybus system. As a 12-year-old already fascinated by the destination blinds he witnessed drivers and conductors changing at termini, he and two friends set out in 1960 on a quest to record all of the trolleybus blind information in purloined school exercise books.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	Buses
卷：	74
期：	803
页码：	94-95