Category:Transport

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Public transport was vital for decades because there were few cars. Hundreds of people relied on buses to get to work and school, to go shopping, to go on holiday, or just to visit friends.

Many Derby residents will recall with fondness the trolleybuses that once operated in the city. Some might even remember the trams that used to trundle through the streets. Both were environmentally-friendly forms of transport which, with the benefit of hindsight, arguably shouldn’t have been phased out. To read about these services and other transport-related stories from around the county, browse the list below. Did you know, for example, that there was once a plan for an airport in Derby?

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• 'The Derbyshire' All At Sea

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• Airbus A380
• Airship crashed just four days after visiting Derby

C

• Central Bus Station opens October 2 1933
• Childhood memories inspire scenes from Derby’s steam era
• Cromford and High Peak Railway

D

• Dakota DC3: One, two, three push that plane!
• Derby Bus Station
• Derby County - In Troubled Waters
• Derbyshire's lost railways: The "Friargate Line"

E

• Ecclesbourne Valley Railway
• Ecclesbourne Valley Railway : Idridgehay
• Ecclesbourne Valley Railway :Ravenstor

F

• Falkirk Wheel: Ripley firm creates wonder wheel
• Felix Bus Services: Caring Felix buses dropped dad at door
• Felix Bus Services: Lifetime's hobby was inspired by a boyhood bus passion
• Fishing for Pennies - Derby's Lifeboat Appeal

H

• H.M.S. Derbyshire - Diamond Vessel Did Her Duty
• Historic Handyside bridge is in need of some loving care

I

• Infamous LMS Rail Crash Claimed Three Derbyshire Lives

J

• Jaguar: Sandows had first E-type in Derby

L

• Locomotive of Yesteryear - The 'Derby County'
• Locomotive of Yesteryear - The 'Derbyshire Yeomanry'
• Locomotives: Loco rang the changes before and after US trip

M

• Midland Railway
• Motoring: The joys of 1940s cramped motoring

N

• National Tramway Museum

O

• Omnibuses in the 1830s were cheap and on time

R

• Ramsline Halt
• Rolls, Charles Stewart: Fatal 1910 air crash broke up remarkable partnership
• Rolls-Royce

S

• Sleek neat manoeuvres netted Dave a lorryload of trophies

T

• The Derby airport plan which never took off
• The Roundhouse: Locos should be brought back to the Roundhouse
• The S.S. Derbyshire - A Life On The Ocean Wave

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• The story of the best WW2 British tank
• The taxi business that Jack built in a car park hut
• The traffic-free days when Stan was in the driving seat
• Titanic of the skies’ maiden voyage tragedy
• Transport
• Transport History: Pictures tell story of change
• Trent and Mersey canal
• Trolley buses
• Trolleybus era comes to an end September 9 1967
• Trolleybus services disrupted in Victoria Street
• Trolleybus: 75 years since the first trolleybus ran in Derby
• Trolleybus: Being a duckie on the bus in the 1940s
• Trolleybuses
• Trolleybuses offered us a great night out before the war years

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• Walkers' guide to air crash disasters
• When horses were made to take the strain

£

• £1m vision to rescue historic rail bridge