The Blackpool Streamlined Trams

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526709066
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blackpool Streamlined Trams written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What a variety are pictured here! Double deck ‘balloon’ cars, single deckers including open topped cars and various illuminated cars, a specialty of the town.” —York Model Engineers newsletter In the early 1930s the tramcar in Blackpool was at a crossroads; the system needed investment in both new track and new trams while there was a serious threat that the “town” routes might be converted to bus operation. The appointment of Walter Luff as the new general manager was, however, to prove a turning point. Working closely with English Electric, based in nearby Preston, Luff developed a series of streamlined trams—both single-deck and double-deck—that were to revolutionize the town’s tramway. By the end of 1930s, the corporation had acquired more than 100 new trams—the majority built by English Electric but with twenty coming from Brush—that ensured the survival not only of the key route along the Promenade to Fleetwood but also of the bulk of the “town” routes. Over the next seventy years these trams were to form the cornerstone of the Blackpool system. It was only with the modernization of the system in the first decade of the 20th century that, finally, they became largely obsolete but still, as part of the heritage fleet, they remain very much part of the contemporary Blackpool scene. This book examines the history of Blackpool’s streamlined trams of the 1930s from development through to preservation. “An important addition to the more straightforward business and picture book histories of the Blackpool tram network which local historians and industrial archaeologists will find of great value aiding future studies of this subject.” —Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society

Author : Mike Rhodes
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 139810843X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackpool to Fleetwood by Tram written by Mike Rhodes and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic celebration of the famous Blackpool trams. This book features a wide cross-section of trams which have operated at the seaside resort over the past forty years.

Author : Steve Palmer
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
ISBN 13 : 9780711024595
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heyday of Blackpool's Trams written by Steve Palmer and published by Specialist Marketing International. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Henry Abell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853615033
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackpool Trams written by Paul Henry Abell and published by . This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Palmer
Publisher : Venture Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781905304226
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackpool's Trams Past and Present written by Steve Palmer and published by Venture Publications Limited. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Palmer
Publisher : Steve Palmer
ISBN 13 : 9780953638628
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highlights of Blackpool's Trams written by Steve Palmer and published by Steve Palmer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 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 : 4.00/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Jeffrey Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900433429
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Always a Tram in Sight written by Jeffrey Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Meskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954803599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackpool Trams Pictorial written by Nick Meskell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Goodyear
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399047000
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Northern Rails written by David Goodyear and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book endeavors to capture the very essence of the railways in the northern UK, exploring in photographs their imprint upon the landscape. Railways are illustrated as they traverse the bleak fells, pass by traditional cotton mills and industrial heritage, stride over iconic viaducts crossing vast windswept valleys and coastal estuaries, and as they share the grandeur of iconic cathedrals of both religious and railway station designs, whilst not forgetting the intricate network of canals intertwining with the rails that eventually carried the very traffic that kept these waterways in use. Here is a personal selection which I trust helps explore all that characterizes and reveals the moods and atmosphere which conjure the heart and “Spirit” of railways traversing our northern climes. Locomotives, train designs and liveries past and present will help recall the rails of the 1980’s and 90’s and offer an interesting contrast to the more modern images of the present millennium. With a mix of traction and train fleets, both in use on passenger and freight consists, this selection of images reveals their participation in capturing the heart of railways in the north. Readers are invited to share this fascinating adventure and indeed the inherent “Northern Spirit” which permeates throughout such a journey.