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Download or read book Series of Bibliographies Covering the Tramways of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 20?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David John Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422341
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Literature Relating to Tramways in the North-East of England written by David John Croft and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David John Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422389
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Literature Relating to Yorkshire Tramways written by David John Croft and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422402
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Literature Relating to Tramways in East Angia written by David Croft and published by . This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David John Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422549
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Literature Relating to Tramways in South-West England written by David John Croft and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David John Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422471
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Literature Relating to Tramways in the East Midlands written by David John Croft and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David John Croft
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Tramways of Great Britain and Ireland written by David John Croft and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422440
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Literature Relating to Tramways in North Lancashire and Cumbria written by David Croft and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David John Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422303
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Literature Relating to Welsh Tramways written by David John Croft and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473869404
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Rails in the Road written by Oliver Green and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been passenger tramways in Britain for 150 years, but it is a rollercoaster story of rise, decline and a steady return. Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike. Horse trams, introduced from the USA in the 1860s, were the first cheap form of public transport on city streets. Electric systems were developed in nearly every urban area from the 1890s and revolutionised town travel in the Edwardian era.A century ago, trams were at their peak, used by everyone all over the country and a mark of civic pride in towns and cities from Dover to Dublin. But by the 1930s they were in decline and giving way to cheaper and more flexible buses and trolleybuses. By the 1950s all the major systems were being replaced. Londons last tram ran in 1952 and ten years later Glasgow, the city most firmly linked with trams, closed its network down. Only Blackpool, famous for its decorated cars, kept a public service running and trams seemed destined only for scrapyards and museums.A gradual renaissance took place from the 1980s, with growing interest in what are now described as light rail systems in Europe and North America. In the UK and Ireland modern trams were on the streets of Manchester from 1992, followed successively by Sheffield, Croydon, the West Midlands, Nottingham, Dublin and Edinburgh (2014). Trams are now set to be a familiar and significant feature of twenty-first century urban life, with more development on the way.
Author : David Croft
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ISBN 13 : 9781874422723
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of British and Irish Tramways written by David Croft and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography of British and Irish tramways including history and chronology, also covers light railways, includes tramway engineering, legislation, administration, preservation, memorabilia, staff and personalities and sources for study of tramways.
Author : Peter Waller
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ISBN 13 : 9781913733506
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Lost Tramways of England: Leeds West written by Peter Waller and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Tramways of England: Leeds West is the first of two volumes in the series covering the history of trams in the city from their origins in the late 19th century through to the final routes in November 1959. This volume examines in detail the early history of the tramways as well as concentrating on the tramways that served to the western side of the city.
Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473862256
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Works Trams of the British Isles written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic overview of the little-known cars and engineers that kept British tramways running smoothly and safely. While generally unfamiliar to the passengers that used tramways, works trams were an essential facet of the efficient operation of any system—large or small—and this book presents an overview of the great variety of works trams that served the first generation of tramways in the British Isles. Although construction of most tramways was left to the contractor employed on the work, once this was completed the responsibility for the maintenance and safe operation of the system fell on the operator. The larger the operator, the greater and more varied the fleet of works cars employed; specialist vehicles were constructed for specific duties. Smaller operators, however, did not have this luxury, relying instead on one or two dedicated works cars or, more often, a passenger car temporarily assigned to that work. This book is a pictorial survey of the many weird and wonderful works cars that once graced Britain’s first generation tramways.
Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 152673902X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Britain's Preserved Trams written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is almost 100 years since the first tram was preserved in Britain, in the century since then a great variety of trams have been saved from tramway systems small and large. Some trams were purchased directly out of service and others were acquired after many years alternative usage, some being summer houses or homes, while others were used on farms or allotments where they served as sheds and out buildings, before being lovingly restored over many years. The story of tram preservation is not wholly positive, in the early days many trams suffered from being stored in the open at unsafe sites, where the historic vehicles were often subjected to acts of vandalism and suffered badly from the weather. This changed to a large extent in 1959, with the acquisition of the site of the future National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire,, where a comprehensive collection of trams from all over Britain and also foreign tram networks has been assembled, to secure a collection of tramcars for future generations. There is also today fine collections of trams in other museums in Britain and Ireland, which cover much of the rich history of this once common form of public transport. This book looks at almost 200 of these trams when they were in service, through historic photographs, prior to their withdrawal and eventual preservation.
Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526738988
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Britain's Second-Hand Trams written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the history of Britain’s electric tramcar fleets, many thousands were manufactured of which the vast majority saw out their operational life with a single owner. However, for several hundred there was to be a second – if not, in certain cases, a third – career with a new operator. Almost from the dawn of the electric era in the late 19th century tramcars were loaned or bought and sold between operators. The reasons for this were multifarious. Sometimes the aspirations of the original owners for traffic proved wildly optimistic and the fleet was downsized to reflect better the actual passenger levels. War was a further cause as operators sought to strengthen their fleets to cater for unexpectedly high level of demand or to replace trams destroyed by enemy action. For other operators, modernization represented an opportunity to sell older cars while, certainly from the 1930s, a number of operators – such as Aberdeen, Leeds and Sunderland – took advantage of the demise of tramways elsewhere to supplement their fleet with trams that were being withdrawn but which still had many years of useful operational life in them. The process was to continue right through to the mid-1950s when Glasgow took advantage of the demise of the once-extensive Liverpool system to purchase a number of the streamlined bogie bogie cars that were built in the late 1930s. In this book the author provides a pictorial history – with detailed captions – to the many electric trams that were to operate with more than one tramway during the period up to the closure of the closure of the Glasgow system in 1962.
Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 9781473871144
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Regional Tramways - Midlands and Southern England written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the latest in a series of tramway books covering Britain's post war tram networks. The book covers the systems that survived the Second World War, in the Midlands and Southern England, except London which will have a separate book. This extensive volume covers all the post war systems from their inception through to closure, with a superb range of images - many of which are previously unpublished - depicting each operation, from horse tram days through to the end. In addition, the comprehensive introduction provides an overview of the myriad other systems that once operated in the region but which did not survive after 1945, featuring such notable towns and cities as Bristol, Coventry and Norwich. Also included in the volume are accounts of the two second-generation systems to operate in the area: Midland Metro and Nottingham Express Transit.
Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 9781473862074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Regional Tramways - the North West of England, Post 1945 written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third in the 'Regional Tramways' series that covers the history of tramway operation in the British Isles. Focusing on North-West England, the book provides an overview of the history of tramways in the region from the 1860s, when one of the pioneering horse trams that predated the Tramways Act of 1870 operated in Birkenhead (the first tramway to operate in the British Isles), through to the closures of the last traditional tramways (Stockport and Liverpool) in 1951 and 1957. It also looks at one great survivor the tramway in Blackpool that, fully modernized, continues to operate in the twenty-first century. Concentrating on the systems that survived into 1945 Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Darwen, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Salford, SHMD and Stockport the book provides a comprehensive narrative, detailing the history of these operations from 1945 onwards, with full fleet lists, maps and details of route openings and closures. The story is supported by almost 200 illustrations, both colour and black and white, many of which have never been published before, that portray the trams that operated in these towns and cities, and the routes on which they operated. Bringing the story up to date, the book also examines the one second-generation tramway built in the region Manchester Metrolink as well as informing readers where it is still possible to see surviving first-generation trams from the region in preservation.
