Ride a 698 LONDON TROLLEYBUS in 1959
So much has changed since 1959 in the places the 698 route passed through that this old film is a record of the street scenes as much as of a form of transport long vanished from the London area. Being unfamiliar with the area I resorted to Google Earths Street View facility to try to identify locations seen, but especially in Erith and Bexleyheath its mostly impossible. Trams in North London were almost entirely replaced by trolleybuses during the 1930s. So also were routes formerly operated by Bexley,
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