On 25 Feb, 00:50, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 wrote:

On 24 Feb, 14:47, "John Rowland"
wrote:
wrote:


Shoot Up Hill is a gross exaggeration,

gmap-pedometer.com says there's a ~110 metre rise between the junction
with Marylebone Road and the end of the straight bit it Stanmore, over a
distance of 14 km, but it also says it's distributed evenly over the
distance, so i think this reflects the poverty of the elevation data
rather than any aspect of London topography.

From your description, I think you are including the section of the A5
that goes up to the near the old Roman site known called 'Sulloniace',
near to the Orthopaedic Hospital.
The old Edgware Rd trolley buses never went beyond somewhere near the
T.A. centre, between Edgware and Burnt Oak, well before the hilly bit.
They went as far as Cricklewood Garage I thnk. The minor gradient
rise up to Kilburn Station would be of no consequence at all for a
modern electric trolleybus.
After that it's flat all the way to Marble Arch.