Meetings

Regular meetings are held in London on trolleybus operation and history. Non-members are sure of a friendly welcome. Refreshments available. There is a small charge to defray costs. The venue, usually, is Keen House, 4 Calshot Street, N1 (near Kings Cross underground station). Meetings start at 19.00 hours. Meetings organiser: John Parkin, 59 Beechwood Court, West Street Lane, Carshalton, SM5 2QA. 020 8773 0048. Trolleybus654@aol.com Due to Coronovirus all meetings are postponed until restrictions are lifted

18 March	Videos of Crimea and the Baltic States - Graham Bilbe
15 April	RF Mack's Photographic Archive - Ashley Bruce
20 May	The story of London United's trams and trolleybuses - Eddie Dawes
20 May	System closures from 50 years ago - Martin Eady

NTA members are also invited to the meetings of the British Trolleybus Society, held at the Reading Oddfellows Hall, Oxford Road, Reading (next to Holy Trinity Church). Meetings start at 19.30 hours

6 March	Significant anniversaries including Poland and Germany - Graham Bilbe
3 April	The trolleybus in the 2020s - Dave Chick
1 May	Shaun's Shenanigans - Shaun Bradbury
5 June	Fred Ivey's Black and White Night - Fred Ivey

NTA members are also invited to the meetings of the Bradford Trolleybus Association, held at the Midland Hotel, Forster Square, Bradford every second Friday of the month. Meetings start at 19.30 hours

10 April	TBA
15 May	BTA AGM
	Our speaker in October 2014 was the BBC newsreader Nicholas Owen, who has had a long time interest in railways and trolleybuses. Nicholas told us of how he wanted to do a story for the Daily Telegraph on the remaining trolleybuses, and that he had travelled on these vehicles in his childhood. He chatted to trolleybus crews and passengers in Bradford to help with his book. Following this story he was invited by the publishers David and Charles to write "The History of the British Trolleybus" which he did in 1974, thus he spoke to our Association on the fortieth anniversary of its publication. This proved to be an entertaining evening. John Parkin.