1. An evening photographing Bradford and London trolley buses under lights, both at dusk and after dark, 10th March 2018
The Trolleybus Museum, Belton Rd, Epworth, Doncaster DN8 5SX

An evening photographing Bradford and London trolley buses under lights, both at dusk and after dark, 10th March 2018

An evening recalling photographically the bygone days of Bradford and London transport at the home of the country's premier collection of trolley buses at dusk and after dark in our first night shoot at Sandtoft.

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As something rather different from our visit in the Spring, our October return to Sandtoft will see us photographing around dusk and into the evening as we recreate the sight of trolley buses in Autumnal action, scenes which vanished from our streets over forty years ago.

Sandtoft Museum is located on a relatively small site but has a huge collection of historic vehicles and is home to the largest collection of trolley buses in the world. It was jointly started by four preservation groups in 1969 and is based on a former Royal Air Force Second World War airfield near Doncaster in an area known as the Isle of Axholme. It is a few miles from Junction 2 of the M180 motorway.

Trolley buses are a relatively rare form of transport in the United Kingdom and there are only a handful of operational sites in this country. Systems operated from June 1911 until March 1972. We will use a number of trolley buses from the Museum's collection from different cities. Of course, we will keep each scenario separate so as to create period scenes reminiscent of times gone by when trolley buses remained a living part of some of our major towns and cities.

Bradford was at the forefront of trolley bus operation in the United Kingdom, being the joint first (with Leeds) to introduce this form of traction and also the last city to switch entirely to motor buses, in March 1972. The trolley buses were well suited to the steepness of some routes in the city, though the political and power supply situation of the early 1970s meant that the regular power cuts occasionally cramped their style. The buses were designed and built at Thornbury, Bradford and at the time of closure, it was the longest-lived operational system of its type in the world.

There are several trolley buses from Bradford preserved at Sandtoft (though one is out on loan and 'disguised' in another livery) and we hope to use at least four in shots posed around the depot and elsewhere around the museum site.  

As well as this, we will use the three-axle 'K2' London Transport 1348 which looks tremendous when lit up and hopefully pair it with RT3323 to give us two authentically matched red vehicles; this will provide some very different shots of the pairing from the daytime pictures (hopefully) captured in good daytime conditions in May. It is possible we will use additional vehicles, but this will be confirmed nearer the time.

Our event will start at 18.00 to capture vehicles at dusk and while there is still a shade of deep blue left in the sky. We will run until approximately 21.00 hours. Jason Cross has kindly agreed to provide the lighting for this event and we hope that tea, coffee and other hot drinks will be available on site during the evening.

We hope that many of you will want to join us for an evening of vintage photography near Doncaster.

Event cost £49.00 per person. 

Photos courtesy D J Mitchell

 

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