Author: Keith TurnerPublisher: Oxford Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Directory of British Tramways
Author: Keith TurnerPublisher: Haynes Publications
ISBN: 9781852605490
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Subtitled: Every Passenger-Carrying Tramway, Past and Present. A comprehensive survey of all passenger-carrying tramways ever operated in the British Isles, including Ireland, the Isle of Man and other island systems. All forms of traction are included -- horse, cable, steam, gas and electric -- together with all track gauges from monorail to 18-ft., making this a unique single-volume reference. Systems are fully described including opening and closing dates, takeovers, route lengths, type of stock used, and tramcar numbers. Hdbd., 8 1/4 x 10 1/2, 248 pgs., 218 b&w ill.
Tramway Renaissance in Western Europe
Author: Dejan PetkovPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3658288795
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Dejan Petkov explores the tramway renaissance in Western Europe from a socio-technical standpoint and focuses on the development in Germany, France, and England. A multiple case analysis reveals the drivers, impact forces, actors and interest constellations behind the tramway renaissance in these countries and demonstrates the large variations in local systems and their style. A key finding is that there can be quite different paths to the success of tramway systems, but this success usually comes at a cost and can have a comprehensive character only if the systems are considered an integral part of the overarching strategies and concepts for urban and regional development.
Trams and Trolleybuses
Author: Oliver GreenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784422495
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
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.
Under the Wires at Tally Ho
Author: David BerguerPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750953535
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Today pollution-free transport is high on the political agenda yet it is sometimes forgotten that electric vehicles ran on the streets of London from the early 1900s until 1962. This book tells the story of that period and describes both the vehicles themselves and the effect they had on the development of the suburbs. Local historian David Berguer has endeavoured to paint a picture of what life was like in the capital during this golden age, travelling and working on the trams and trolleybuses, and includes material based on newspaper reports, council and official minutes and oral histories from those involved. With many previously unpublished photographs and detail on the vehicles and routes themselves, there is even a chapter on the colourful pirate buses which competed against trams in the 1920s.Full of local interest and insights into daily life on north London trams and trolleybuses, this celebration of the glory days of electric street traction in the suburbs of North London is bound to capture the imagination of both transport and local historians alike.
London Transport
Author: Peter WallerPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473871204
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A history of London’s horse, steam, cable, and electric tramways, and the operation that ended an era. Includes photos. The final volume in the Regional Tramways series focuses on the history of tram operation in the London area. Starting the story with the pioneering horse tramways operated by George Francis Train in the 1860s, the book narrates how the various horse, steam, cable, and electric tramways evolved in the period leading up to the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933. The primary focus of the book is the period immediately after World War II when, following the retention of the tramways for longer than anticipated, the process of conversion—codenamed Operation Tramaway—saw almost 1,000 trams eliminated from the streets of London in less than two years. Also covered are the two second-generation tramways—the Docklands Light Railway and Croydon Tramlink—which now serve parts of the Greater London area. The book concludes with an overview of those London trams that survive into preservation.
The Gas Tramcar
Author: John HannavyPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399096044
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Gas Tram was a short-lived phenomenon which briefly seemed to herald a new way forward in tramcar design, replacing horses and steam locomotives on the streets with quieter and smoother travel. One of the major advantages of the gas tram, according to those who proposed it, was the low capital cost of the conversion, and all without the need to install the expensive overhead catenary required for electric traction. Designs for gas tramcars were patented all over the world, and systems were briefly operated in Germany, Australia, Holland, Switzerland and the UK, and proposed in France, New Zealand and the USA. The fuel was invariably domestic 'town gas' drawn from the local gasworks, and the vehicles were said to be very cheap to run. This was a development which was probably a century ahead of its time – with twenty-first century gas systems, using much greener biomethane as a fuel, currently being developed in the UK, Korea, China and elsewhere, and biomethane-fuelled trams already in service in Dubai and Aruba. Derived from the natural decomposition of organic waste which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, biomethane is a clean and green alternative to fossil fuels. Other vehicles, using hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity, are being developed in several countries. This book – the first ever comprehensive history of these vehicles – uses many previously unpublished photographs, drawings and patents.
Author: John Parker Anderson
Author: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 28, 1880
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108879438
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically. In 1880, Darwin published On The Power of Movement in Plants, and began writing his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. He was engaged in controversy with Samuel Butler, following publication of his last book, Erasmus Darwin. At the end of the year, he succeeded in raising support for a Civil List pension for Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection.
