LUPTS weblinks

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This page is not intended to give a comprehensive set of weblinks - there are enough specialist sites which do that - but rather it gives links to sites which have some specific LUPTS connection.

It begins with organisations who provide a link to the LUPTS home page and it would seem churlish of us not to reciprocate:

The Bus Station This site provides a very comprehensive series of links to web sites relating to buses, trolleybuses and coaches worldwide and has deemed the LUPTS site worthy of inclusion.
Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society It can be claimed that the MTPS grew directly out of LUPTS in its early days. Their web site acknowledges this and provides a link to the LUPTS homepage.
David Bradley's Tram and Trolleybus page A site with a slight bias towards the London area but one which now includes features on systems elsewhere in Britain. Towards the bottom of the Liverpool Picture Gallery is a page which tells the story of the preservation of tram 869, adapted from the material on the LUPTS site. Select 'Some Tram Pictures' and then 'Liverpool' from the list on the left of the screen.
Liverpool John Moores University - Transport web links Their webmaster is a particularly good friend of the webmaster of the LUPTS site and has been persuaded to provide a link in return for this one. At the last count there were also links to about 250 other websites which might be of interest.
Merseyside Transport Trust Another local society, and one which describes a group which owns a number of vehicles with LUPTS connections. Ex Liverpool half cabs A344/544, A40 and L255 have all been used for LUPTS tours over the years. The MTT also now has ownership of Atlantean E2 which LUPTS has been trying to hire since 1966, but has always been thwarted. Perhaps once its major restoration project has been completed?
Ron Smith's Liverpool tram site Self explanatory, this site has the story, and a series of pictures of, the 'LUPTS tram' 869.
Wikipedia is kind enough to give LUPTS a mention (well, the webmaster actually created the page). They also cite the LUPTS site as a source for information on the Canada Dock Branch.
Class 25 Action record that D7648 (25298) was used for a LUPTS brakevan trip on 2 December 1970.
The Railtour Files provide details of LUPTS events amongst their comprehensive database: Liverpool Suburban, Mersey Docks Rail Tour, Wirral and Mersey Special, Mancunian Several of these entries have details additional to those which have been published by LUPTS over the years.
Ensignbus record that LUPTS used RMA58 (NMY655E) on the 1998 bus tour. The vehicle was part of that company's museum fleet (although has since been sold). Albeit mis-spelling the name of our august society - LUPS - the Bus Stop, a site with comprehensive information about the history of individual London buses, is the source of that information.
The Tramway Museum at Crich has a report on the LUPTS event to mark the 50th anniversary of the tour on Glasgow 1055 on their blog.

Two links relating to film and photograph collections:

Online Transport Archive (OTA) is an organisation which has, through its Board of Directors, links to LUPTS. It exists to conserve collections of film, photographs and negatives relating to all modes of transport, and its images have appeared in a number of recent publications. It was granted charitable status in January 2004 and established a website at more or less the same time.
A significant quantity of OTA film has appeared in the range of videos produced by Online Video. The LUPTS connection is footage of the 1960 Glasgow tram tour in 869, and the Wirral and Mersey Special and the Mersey Docker railtours on certain of their releases.

The following LUPTS members have made their photographs available online:

Paul Hollinghurst has a large number of pictures taken on LUPTS events since 2000, as well as other transport related photographs..
On a similar theme, Rob McCaffrey has a Flickr site with an extensive collection of photographs, and with the promise that specific LUPTS material will be added soon.
Richard Pearson has a Fotopic site as well.
Rob McCaffrey also maintains a blog – Transport Illustrated

The final known online LUPTS reference here is the most obscure. In November 1977, Samir Rihani and Brian Foulds of the Merseyside PTE participated in a LUPTS question and answer session. Years later, the event appeared on Dr (as he is now) Rihani's website as one of his academic papers. Perhaps what you'd call academic licence.

November 1977: Lecture: 'The Future of Transport Planning'; Public Transport Society University of Liverpool, Britain.

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Last updated: 06 September 2010