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LUPTS in exile (home page) |
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LUPTS weekend 2016: 29 April-1 May 2016 weekend complete;
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The Liverpool University
Public Transport Society (LUPTS) was formed in 1958 by a group of
undergraduate students at the University with a mutual interest in all kinds
of transport. Over the next 33 years, it organised meetings and
afternoon trips, ran tours by rail, bus and tram, published a number of
booklets and was active, locally and nationally, in the enthusiast world. One of its earliest
projects was the generation of support for the preservation of Glasgow tram
1055, previously Liverpool 869, and this led to the formation of the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society,
with tram itself eventually passing to the National Tramway Museum at Crich. LUPTS continued as an active
student society through the 60s, 70s and 80s but, with declining numbers, was
forced to disband in 1991. LUPTS therefore no longer exists but
groups of former members continue to perpetuate its name. It no longer
has any connection with the University of
Liverpool. These web pages have been created to give an
online presence for the exiled Society. |
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One from the archives. On 20 February 1960, a LUPTS party
travelled from Liverpool to Glasgow in increasingly bad weather in order to
participate in a tram tour in car 1055 (the former Liverpool 869) the following
day. Until a few years ago, no
photograph of the road leg of the weekend’s activities had ever come to
light, but this image was found amongst the collection of the late Frank
Oldfield when it was passed to Online Transport Archive. (The story of the tram tour is described here.) The Ribble
driver for the trip was Liverpool transport enthusiast Ted Gahan and the
image has been posted here now as a mark of respect to Ted, who died on
Friday 29 January 2016 at the age of 89.
Ted once owned a Bedford OB – ex-West Yorkshire FWW596. It is understood that this vehicle was
used to take the LUPTS party across to Bradford on the occasion of the
trolleybus tour on 15 March 1970, although there is no definitive record of
this. Confirmation – preferably with
a photograph – would be gratefully received. |
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25 August 2016
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