Trolleybuses in Maidstone

Maidstone trolleybus system
Maidstone trolleybus at the Wheatsheaf junction on Sutton Road, September 1966.
Operation
Locale Maidstone, Kent, England
Open 1 May 1928 (1928-05-01)
Close 15 April 1967 (1967-04-15)
Status Closed
Routes 2
Operator(s) Maidstone Corporation Transport
Infrastructure
Stock 24 (maximum)

The Maidstone trolleybus system once served Maidstone, the county town of Kent, England. Opened on 1 May 1928,[1][2] it gradually replaced the Maidstone tramway network.

By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Maidstone system was a small one, with just two routes, and a maximum fleet of only 24 trolleybuses.[1] It was closed on 15 April 1967.[1][2]

Three of the former Maidstone trolleybuses are now preserved, two of them at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, and the other at the East Anglia Transport Museum, Carlton Colville, Suffolk.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Short, Peter. "Former UK systems". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 Bruce, Ashley. "British Trolleybus Systems". British Trolleybuses website. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Zebedee, John (30 November 2010). "A List of Preserved Trolleybuses in the UK". British Trolleybus Society. Retrieved 19 March 2011.

Further reading

  • Harley, Robert (1997). Maidstone Trolleybuses. Midhurst, West Sussex, UK: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-901706-00-0.
  • Kain, Daniel; Coates, Malcolm (1972). The trolleybuses of Maidstone: a survey of the history of the Maidstone Corporation trolleybus system with fleet details and record of sold vehicles. Reading, Berkshire, UK: British Trolleybus Society. ISBN 0-901792-02-0.
  • Lewis, Richard (1979). 75 years of municipal transport in Maidstone. M&D&EKBC.
  • Scotney, D J S (1972). The Maidstone Trolleybus. Guildford, Surrey, UK: National Trolleybus Association, Publications Dept. ISBN 0-85024-004-2.

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