Author: James JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Tramway Heyday
Author: James JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Tramway Heyday
Author: James JoycePublisher:
ISBN: 9780711005181
Category : Horse Tramways
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Tramway Heyday. [With Photographs.].
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Author: James Joyce (Writer on Tramways.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Tramway Memories
Author: James JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Rails in the Road
Author: Oliver GreenPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473869404
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
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 Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike.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.
The Heyday of the Tram
Author: Peter WallerPublisher: Specialist Marketing International
ISBN: 9780711021204
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Modern Tramway
Author: The Tramway Review
Author: The Heyday of the Tram - 2
Author: Peter WallerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780711023963
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Trams Around Dewsbury & Wakefield
Author: Norman EllisPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783379065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
'Trams Around Dewsbury and Wakefield' is part of the new series 'Transport Through the Ages', brought to you by Wharncliffe Books. This fascinating book traces the nostalgic journey of the trams through the ages. 'Trams Around Dewsbury and Wakefield' is an exquisitely illustrated history. It covers two relatively large tramway systems based at Dewsbury and Wakefield and a small system based at Ossett. Unlike other tramway undertakings in West Yorkshire, which were municipally owned and operated, these three were company operated. The book relies heavily on old picture postcards, collected by the author since 1970. Most of the illustrations have not appeared in print before. In addition to trams, they reveal a background of altered or vanished buildings, plus people going about their daily lives. Take yourself on a nostalgic journey through the transitional times of these tramways, as you read 'Trams Around Dewsbury and Wakefield'.