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LUPTS weekend 2017: 28-30 April 2017
Weekend now over: report
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2018’s event will be over the weekend of 4-6 May 2018 In addition, to mark the 60th anniversary of the
society, a special event will be held in the autumn, provisionally over the
weekend of 6/7 October 2018 |
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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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