Route 691 & 693 Picture Gallery There are two pages to this section [ 1 | 2 ]

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Picture 148 Outside Ilford Depot The trolleybus is heading for Barkingside More Information	Picture 149 Outside Ilford Depot Repair wagon en-route to an overhead damage	Picture 150 Repairing the fault	Picture 151 Barkingside High Street By-passing the damaged section of overhead wire
Picture 152 Barkingside High Street More Information	Picture 153 Barkingside High Street More Information	Picture 154 Barkingside High Road near the Chequers Pub More Information	Picture 156 Roundabout at end of Barkingside High Street More Information
Picture 155 Roundabout at end of Barkingside High Street	Picture 550 Ilford Broadway looking north from Ilford Lane	Picture 546 The trolleybus is turning from Ilford High Road into Ilford Lane. Rossis in the background was a favourite haunt of Brian Frary and friends and when they had the money it was a knickerbocker glory ice cream!   More Information
Picture 540 Ilford Broadway looking east along the High Rd. More memories	Pictures 538, 547 and 548 Looking north from Ilford Lane to Ilford Broadway and on to Ilford Station.
Picture 274 Barking terminus where 691 and 693s left for Ilford, Chadwell Heath and Fairlop and Barkingside and the 567 and 665s left for central London. Most 567s terminated at Aldgate, Minories it is interesting to get a vehicle leaving for Smithfield. The terminus at Barking was in London Road/East Street, close to Barking Station and the town centre. Poplar's 1466 on route 567 was transferred to Finchley Depot following the closure of the Commercial Road routes and continued in service until November 1961. Strangely, sister vehicle, 1464 was both the last trolleybus into Poplar Depot [on route 665] and the last ever service 521 running into Finchley Depot, making it the last trolleybus to run from both the Bloomsbury and Holborn terminals. The last trolleybus to arrive at Finchley in January 1962 was vehicle 1468 on route 660.		Picture 100 High Street, Barkingside Picture from the collection of peter.stanton2@ntlworld.com

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A c1975 Ilford map, which probably shows the road layout in 1959.
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Acknowledgements to "Peter Golds" <PSGolds@aol.com>, "Martin Eady" <martin.eady@btinternet.com> and
"Brian D. Frary" <brifrary@alphalink.com.au> for caption information