The Bradford Industrial Museum is gearing up for an exhibition this month to mark 100 years since the trolley bus was introduced.

Bradford and Leeds were the first places for the trolley buses to be introduced, and to celebrate, the museum is borrowing an exhibit from Keighley Bus Museum.

The exhibition, on Sunday, June 19, will feature the city’s last trolley bus, which stopped in 1972, and will carry passengers at the Sandtoft Museum near Doncaster on Sunday, June 26.

Museum manager Neil Hinchcliffe said: “We do have a couple of Bradford public service vehicles here within our collections, but we are happy to be associated with the Keighley Bus Museum.

“It’s very specifically Bradford – it’s worth celebrating the fact Bradford was the first.”

Bradford Trolleybus Assoc-iation is running a coach to Sandtoft, starting at The Park pub in Keighley Road, by the Norman Arch entrance of Lister Park, on June 26, at 9.30am and at the Hilton Hotel, Bradford, at 9.45am.

It returns to Bradford at 5pm. For more information contact (01274) 814548.

Transport enthusiasts have called for a return of the trolley bus to Bradford ahead of its centenary.

For more information contact (01274) 814548.

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