Book Description
Marking 90 years of London Transport, this selection of images celebrates its buses, trams and trolleybuses in preservation.
Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398118788
Marking 90 years of London Transport, this selection of images celebrates its buses, trams and trolleybuses in preservation.
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473861489
In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses.
Author : Martin Jenkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 152672698X
A portrait of midcentury London and its trams, trains, trolleybuses, ferries, and more, filled with color photos from 1948-1969. The rich variety of transport in the London area is reflected in this color album from Martin Jenkins and Charles Roberts. Using mainly previously unpublished color views from the period 1948-1969, they have assembled a remarkable array of views covering all modes of transport. The reader is taken on a fascinating journey of discovery, not knowing what will be around the next corner—encountering buses, trams, and trolleybuses; main line steam, diesel and electric; London Transport electric and steam as well as little-known industrial railways; activities on the Thames, in docks, and on canals; liners, ferries, and pleasure steamers; plus aviation and even a coal merchant’s horse-drawn cart. Captioned images in stunning color have been selected wherever possible to show changing streetscapes, buildings, and fashions, bringing the period to life. This book is a tribute to those photographers who had the foresight to record these scenes before they were swept away in the name of progress.
Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1399087916
The preservation of our transport heritage is something that the British excel at. The Buses magazine Museum & Rally Guide 2020-21 lists forty museums in the United Kingdom plus one in the Republic of Ireland with collections of buses (and sometimes trams or trolleybuses) amongst their exhibits. The rally calendar section lists hundreds of events taking part every year. This has all developed since the 1950s. Prior to this a few far-sighted companies such as The London General Omnibus Company (later London Transport) had put aside some old vehicles but they were not on regular display. Private preservation started in the 1950s and the first clubs for preservationists were established such as the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club in 1958. A few early events were held, but the first regular event was the HCVC (now HCVS) London to Brighton Run which began in 1962 and has continued ever since. Museum sites were established in the 1960s – The Museum of British Transport opened in stages between 1961 and 1963 and would lead eventually to the London Transport Museum. The East Anglian Transport Museum at Carlton Colville and the Sandtoft Transport Centre both opened in the 1960s. But it would be the 1970s when the rallies and ‘Open Days’ we know today really began to take off. This book looks back at the formative years to 1980 when the seeds of the preservation and rally movement of today were being sown.
Author : S. L. Poole
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Buses
ISBN :
Author : Geoff Bannister
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
The author came to London from Burnley in 1949 as a nine-year old having developed an interest in transport at a very early age; he remained here, mainly in Wandsworth, until 1994. In his first two books, he described his trainspotting travels around Britain. In this third book, he considers London Transport’s road fleet with an emphasis on the Central Area during the conversion of the trolleybus routes during 1959-62. He writes about his local trolleybus routes, also recollecting seeing trams as a schoolboy in Tooting. Not possessing a camera until 1959, he has drawn on later photographs and preserved vehicles to fill earlier gaps and takes the reader on a tour of the Central Area with an emphasis on the trolleybuses but covering other vehicles such as the early days of the iconic Routemasters along with everyday shots of life at that time. Green Country buses do make some appearances and he makes a brief nod to the off-the-peg vehicles acquired after RM production which led such chequered lives in the capital.
Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1784422509
From the horse-drawn trams of the nineteenth century to the larger electric models of the early twentieth, this reliable form of public transport revolutionised town travel by making it affordable enough for working people to use. From the 1930s, the rise of the trolleybus, which also picked up power from overhead cables but ran without expensive tracks, looked set to supersede the tram – but ultimately, by the 1950s, both fell victim to motor buses and private cars. However, since the 1980s the environmental benefits of light rail have encouraged a growing comeback for trams on our crowded and polluted city streets. Using beautiful contemporary photographs, this is the fascinating story of the rise, fall and revival of this everyday, yet sometimes controversial, mode of urban transport.
Author : S. L. Poole
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Street-railroads
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Trolley buses
ISBN : 9781854143020
Author : John Robert Day
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Street-railroads
ISBN :