The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire trolleybus system once linked the city

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 of Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

, in the county of Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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, England

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, with Ripley

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, in the neighbouring county of Derbyshire

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. Opened on , it replaced the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire tramway

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company

The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company was formed in 1903 to build a tramway linking Nottingham, Derby, and Ilkeston, in Derbyshire, England...

, between the same termini.

By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus

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 systems in the United Kingdom

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, the system was a small and short-lived one, with a total of three routes, and a maximum fleet of 32 trolleybuses. It was closed relatively early, on .

Three of the former Notts & Derby system trolleybuses are now preserved, one of them at Bournemouth Heritage Transport, Parkstone

Parkstone

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, Dorset

Dorset

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, and the other two in a private collection in Boughton

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, Nottinghamshire.

The city of Nottingham was also served by the Nottingham trolleybus system

Trolleybuses in Nottingham

The Nottingham trolleybus system once served the city of Nottingham, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. Opened on , it gradually replaced the Nottingham tramway network....

, in operation between 1927 and 1966. A Derby trolley bus network

Trolleybuses in Derby

The Derby trolleybus system once served Derby, the county town of Derbyshire in central England. The trolleybus service started in 1932 and ran until 1967.-History:The Derby trolleybus system opened on , and it gradually replaced the Derby tramway network...

 also existed from 1932 to 1967, having also taken over from tramcars. It finished when extensive roadworks made alterations to the overhead wiring uneconomic.

See also

• History of Nottingham
  History of Nottingham
  This article is about the history of Nottingham.-History:Nottingham is relatively unusual among big manufacturing cities in Britain in having a mediæval and pre-industrial past of equal importance to its more recent one. The first evidence of settlement dates from pre-Roman times, and it is...
  
  
• Transport in Nottingham
  Transport in Nottingham
  Nottingham is the seventh largest conurbation in the United Kingdom. Despite this, the city had a poor transportation system in the 1980s. Due to this, the government have in the early twentyfirst century invested a lot of money in the transportation network of Nottingham, which has led to the...
  
  
• List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom

External links

• National Trolleybus Archive

• British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
• National Trolleybus Association, based in London