' 55 ' UDT 455F 1968 Leyland Royal Tiger Cub RTC also with ' 2450 ' C45 HDT 1985 DENNIS Dominator

            No: 55  UDT 455F  1968  Leyland Royal Tiger Cub RTC 1/2 800311 with Roe B45D+15 body  Doncaster Transport
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No: 2450  C45 HDT  1985  DENNIS Dominator DTA 1401/101 with Alexander R type H47/33F body SYPTE - South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
Rebuilt from Dennis Chassis Number DDA901/770

A consortium consisting of the PTE - Passenger Transport Executive, INSUL-8, Balfour Beatty, GEC (General Electric Company), TPL (Transportation Projects Ltd), Hestair Dennis and Walter Alexander & Company Coachbuilders of Falkirk, Scotland was established to build Britain's first trolleybus for over 20 years.

' Electroline ' was a experimental second generation prototype trolleybus, with the chassis from Hestair Dennis which utilised the chassis of a modified Dennis Dominator motor bus, of which over 300 had already entered service with the PTE - Passenger Transport Executive.
No: 2450 with its Alexander R type 80-seat body, had a 300kW traction motor fitted instead of a diesel engine, the body being reinforced with steel and modified to accept the additional roof stresses and wiring.
No: 2450 being Bi-mode with an auxiliary air cooled diesel engine, for off - wire operation work.

A long-side Doncaster Racecourse on Sandall Beat Road, there was a Straight 1 Mile test track constructed with overhead wires. Near to the site of the old Doncaster Bus Depot on Leicester Avenue, now the location of a WICKES DIY Store.

Test runs began in 1985, which proved to be a success. Unfortunately the project never went beyond the testing stage, with the forthcoming deregulation of local bus services in 1986. It meant that the trial of the ' Electroline ' trolleybus being brought to an abrupt end, because no further resources were made available towards this project.

The test track and overhead wires on Sandall Beat Road near to Doncaster Racecourse were removed in 1994 and No: 2450 subsequently being donated to The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Sandtoft (show map)

Taken on: November 12, 2016

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