Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways

Author: Ric Francis
Publisher: Areca Books
ISBN: 9789834283407
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
"Which city once had the smallest trolley-bus in the world? Where do you find the first funicular railway in Southeast Asia? How do you recognize a trolley-bus pole? Where is Tramway Road?" "With over 100 old photographs, maps and illustrations, this book gives an overview of the various forms of public transport used in George Town from 1880s to 1963, and the role this transport played in the development of the growth of George Town and Penang." "Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established its own electric supply, it took over the tram service and started the electric trams in George Town in 1906. This gave the local population excellent public transport around George Town, with one line going up to Ayer Itam. In the late 1920s, the Municipality replaced trams with trolley-buses, experimenting for a while with re-conditioned double-deckers from London Transport!" "The Municipality also operated two railways - firstly, the Penang Hill Railway which was considered an engineering marvel when it was first built, and secondly, the electric railway which transported supplies and tin ingots for Penang's foremost smelting works."--BOOK JACKET.

Trams and Trolleybuses

Author: Oliver Green
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784422509
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.

Buses, Trolleys and Trams

Author: Chas S. Dunbar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780600004479
Category : Buses
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Tramways and Trolleys

Author: John P. McKay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608022291
Category : Light rail and tramways
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description

Belgium's Trams and Trolleybuses

Author: John Law
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398107255
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
With a terrific selection of colour photographs, explore the history of Belgium's trams and trolleybuses.

Transport Revolutions

Author: Richard Gilbert
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849773459
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.Transport Revolutions synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice.With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.

Tasmania's Trolley Buses

Author: Ian Gollan Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909459222
Category : Trolley buses
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Railway Transportation Systems

Author: Christos N. Pyrgidis
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498788157
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high speed inter

Dundee's Trams and Buses

Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445634724
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into Dundee's Trams and Buses.

Alan Turing's Manchester

Author: Jonathan Swinton
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 1803990759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stories, of Turing at Bletchley Park. But it is about the second two, which each unfolded here in Manchester, of Turing's involvement in the world's first computer and of his refusal to be cowed about his sexuality. Manchester can be proud of Turing, but can we be proud of the city he encountered?