The South Shields trolleybus system once served the town of South Shields, then in County Durham, but now in Tyne and Wear, England. Opened on 12 October 1936 (1936-10-12),^[1] it gradually replaced the South Shields Corporation Tramways.

By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the South Shields system was a medium-sized one, with a total of 11 routes, and a maximum fleet of 61 trolleybuses.^[1] It was closed on 29 April 1964 (1964-04-29).^[1]

One of the former South Shields trolleybuses is now preserved, at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.^[2]

• History of South Shields
• Transport in South Shields
• Transport in Tyne and Wear
• List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom

• Burrows, Geoff (1976). The Trolleybuses of South Shields, 1936-64. Strood, Kent, UK: Trolleybooks. ISBN 0-904235-04-1.
• Lockwood, Stephen (2007). South Shields Trolleybuses. Midhurst, West Sussex, UK: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-906008-11-6.

Media related to Buses in South Shields at Wikimedia Commons

• SCT'61 website - photos and descriptions of a South Shields trolleybus and early motorbuses
• National Trolleybus Archive
• British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
• National Trolleybus Association, based in London

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