A History Of Tramways

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Unique Archives
ISBN 13 : 9789887792857
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tramways of Hong Kong written by Peter Waller and published by Unique Archives. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, trams have plied their trade along the shore of Hong Kong Island. They have witnessed the transformation of the city from a colonial backwater to a financial powerhouse. Today, the trams still carry vast numbers of passengers daily, and Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world where you can ride a double-deck tram. Using fascinating photographs, most of which have never been published before, this book is a vivid reminder of how much Hong Kong has changed.

Author : R. J. Buckley
Publisher : Newton Abbot : Douglas, David & Charles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Tramways written by R. J. Buckley and published by Newton Abbot : Douglas, David & Charles. This book was released on 1975 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. A. Whitcombe
Publisher : Surrey (Englland) : Oakwood Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Steam Tram written by H. A. Whitcombe and published by Surrey (Englland) : Oakwood Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 52 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 Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike.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 : Randall Wilson
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1742247083
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Melbourne Tram Book written by Randall Wilson and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melbourne’s trams are more than a mode of transport. They are a symbol of the city. This fully updated new edition of The Melbourne Tram Book is a colourful and compact tribute to Melbourne’s famous trams, one of the city’s most enduring symbols. More than 200 photographs and illustrations show trams in the streetscapes of today and yesterday, with detailed commentary from tram experts Randall Wilson and Dale Budd.

Author : Ichirō Kakizaki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786162150807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trams, Buses, and Rails written by Ichirō Kakizaki and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trams, Buses, and Rails recounts the unique and little-known 130-year history of Bangkok's transportation system, from the first horse-powered tramway in 1888 to the mass transit urban railway of the twenty-first century. Using government archives and annual reports, the author deftly pieces together long-buried records and statistics to reconstruct the transportation policies of each successive metropolitan and national administration. He highlights the politicization and regulation of Bangkok's transport systems over the decades, and uncovers a series of setbacks, reversals, duplications, revisions, and cancellations that help to explain Bangkok's continuing transportation woes. A series of maps and tables elucidate the development of transportation routes and the rise and fall of the city's trams, railways, and bus lines.

Author : Daniel Kinnear Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tramways, Their Construction and Working written by Daniel Kinnear Clark and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John P. McKay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608022291
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tramways and Trolleys written by John P. McKay and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135670234
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London United Tramways written by Geoffrey Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the twentieth century arrived the first electric tramcars in London. Thirty years later the first trolley buses arrived - along with a fleet of new trams that were the most modern of their day. This era was one of rapid change, rich in achievement adn personalities. Among the more colourful of the undertakings involved was London United, which introduced the first public service of electric tramcars in 1901 adn became one of the predecessors of the present London Transport. This is a study of this eventful period, relating the development of the tramway and trolleybus system to the changing social background. It contains a wealth of hitherto unpublished material, both factual and anecdotal, taken from contemporary newspaper and other accounts, and a remarkable collection of illustrations - 48 pages in all. It should be of interest not only to the transport enthusiast but also to the general reader interested in social history. This book was first published in 1971.

Author : Ric Francis
Publisher : Areca Books
ISBN 13 : 9789834283407
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways written by Ric Francis and published by Areca Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.