Pioneers Of The Street Railway In The Usa Street Tramways In The Ukand Elsewehere

Author : Alan W. Brotchie
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ISBN 13 : 9781840333633
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Pioneers of the Street Railway in the USA, Street Tramways in the UK ... and Elsewhere written by Alan W. Brotchie and published by . This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street railways - or passenger tramways - were a product of the USA. This book is the result of a transatlantic collaboration between two transport historians and re-eaxamines the subject by going back to primary sources. There is special focus on the American car builder, John Stephenson and of the influence of the US entrepreneur, George Francis Train on developments in the UK.

Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473869404
Total Pages : 563 pages
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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 Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike.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.

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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Total Pages : 1304 pages
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Total Pages : 1296 pages
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Download or read book Electric Railway Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 946 pages
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Total Pages : 1320 pages
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Total Pages : 1096 pages
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Total Pages : 868 pages
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Total Pages : 978 pages
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