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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Twenty
Keith Easton Night and Sunday Morning Services Tramway services were operated by the Corporation between the hours of 5am to 11pm on Mondays to Saturdays, and between 1.30pm and 11pm on Sundays. Demand for travel outside these hours was low, and any receipts from them would not cover the operating costs. This situation continued until…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Nineteen
Keith Easton Destination Indicators From the outset public services in Hull has shown the route taken in one form or another. The electric trams, from the start of the system carried boards on the sided of the upper deck sides giving the route, for example, ‘ANLABY ROAD & St JOHN’S STREET’ or ‘HESSLE ROAD &…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Eighteen
Keith Easton Route Identification The trams in Hull had used letters for route identification since the turn of the century. The letters denoting the route as follows: – A= Anlaby Road, B= Beverley Road, D= Hessle Road (i.e. Dairycoates), H= Holderness Road, M= Hedon Road (i.e. Marfleet) and S= Spring Bank. Subsequent letters indicated variations…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Seventeen
Keith Easton Inter-Licence Transfers Prior to the 1950’s it was uncommon for any Road Service Licence to carry more than one route, variants and short workings were usually granted on separate licences and this fact could lead to a situation where a number of licences carried routes which were essentially similar. However from the 1950’s…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Sixteen
Keith Easton Road Service Licences As stated elsewhere, Road Service Licences were granted to operators under the auspices of the 1930 Road Traffic Act. There was no automatic right for an operator to be granted licences for services which were operated prior to the Act taking effect, but in general most operators did gain licences…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Fifteen
Keith Easton Dual Licence Services There now remains only a few services which do not fit conveniently into any of the previous chapters, by reason of travelling between two of the main thoroughfares already described but was operated on both licences as a through journey. These were the only cross-city services operated prior to the…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Fourteen
Keith Easton Pier & Miscellaneous Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/20, /28, /43, /44, /59, /96, /154, /155, /156, /162, /163 BH101/164 to /183 (HCC contracts) There was only one Municipal tram and bus route that ran southwards from the city centre and this was to serve the cross-Humber ferries of the Great Central Railway and…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Thirteen
Keith Easton Outer Circle Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/104, /105, /125, /126, /127. Due to the complexity and large number of services in this group it will be described under each licence number, relating transfers on and off as they occur and further development of each of these transfers can be followed on the new…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Twelve
Keith Easton Inner Circle Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/1, /13, /14, /15, /27, /62, /116, /128. The chapter heading is rather misleading as the term “Inner Circle” was not used in this group until 1980, and it concerned only one licence, even then. The licence concerned was the one that had its origins in the…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Eleven
Keith Easton Bransholme Special Services Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/135, /136, /140, /141, /160. In May 1974, a new licence, BH101/135 was granted for a circular bus service which traversed the main areas of Bransholme estate. It commenced and terminated at the Bodmin Road timing point and was numbered 99. There was a similar school…