Glasgow's Trams
Author : Museum of Transport and Technology (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : Museum of Transport and Technology (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Street-railroads
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : Glasgow Museum of Transport
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Street-railroads
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Transportation
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Light rail and tramways
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Author : Science Museum (Great Britain). Library
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Science
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Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473869404
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 Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike.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 : Daniel Kinnear Clark
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : Martin Jenkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 152679439X
This book has been commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the closure of Glasgow’s remarkable tram system, when over 250,000 people lined the city streets on 4 September 1962 to watch a final procession of some 20 trams representing different periods in the history of the undertaking. Using a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, the book shows as many areas and aspects of the city as possible. The trams are once again back where they belong, right in the heart of the city and its suburbs with people, period buses, cars and lorries, shops, churches, theatres, cinemas, parks, shipyards, factories and even steam and electric locos running on the tram tracks. Furthermore, the coverage goes way beyond the city boundary to encompass Airdrie, Coatbridge, Cambuslang, Rutherglen, Barrhead, Paisley, Renfrew, Clydebank and Milngavie. Over the years many locations have changed beyond recognition while others remain instantly recognisable. There are scores of photographs of the long-lasting Standards (some even in Glasgow’s legendary colored route bands), trams acquired from Paisley including those cut down to single-deckers, Kilmarnock bogies, modern Coronations and Cunarders, ex-Liverpool cars, one-offs and also works cars. For those who still remember the trams, we hope you enjoy looking back as much as we have and for those who have no memory of wires and rails in the street, we hope this will recapture a lost way of life when services were frequent and fares relatively inexpensive.