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Author | : Malcolm Batten |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2023-08-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1398118788 |
Marking 90 years of London Transport, this selection of images celebrates its buses, trams and trolleybuses in preservation.
Author | : Andrew Turton |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0750963158 |
The golden age of coaching came between 1815 and 1840 as great road improvements occurred allowing trams, carts and buggies to be towed by horses comfortably. As companies vied for market share, one man stood out above the rest. William Turton made his money as a Hay and Corn Merchant but is better known as a founder and long-time chairman of Leeds Tramways Company and with the Busby brothers, founder and director of horse tramways in ten of the largest cities of northern England. It is an exciting mixture of biography, social history and city politics.
Author | : Philip Bagwell |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2006-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852855901 |
Highlighting long term themes in Britain's transport history, this book looks at the dilemmas facing modern society and suggests several possible solutions. It covers all the major forms of transport, from the horse to the aeroplane, setting them in their historical context.
Author | : Matthew (Matt) Wharmby |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1783831731 |
Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit double-deck one-man-operation and partially fund purpose-built vehicles. However, prohibited by circumstances from developing its own rear-engined Routemaster (FRM) concept, LT instituted comparative trials between contemporary Leyland Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines.The latter came out on top, and massive orders followed. The first DMSs entering service on 2 January 1971. In service, however, problems quickly manifested. Sophisticated safety features served only to burn out gearboxes and gulp fuel. The passengers, meanwhile, did not appreciate being funnelled through the DMS's recalcitrant automatic fare-collection machinery only to have to stand for lack of seating. Boarding speeds thus slowed to a crawl, to the extent that the savings made by laying off conductors had to be negated by adding more DMSs to converted routes! Second thoughts caused the ongoing order to be amended to include crew-operated Fleetlines (DMs), noise concerns prompted the development of the B20 quiet bus variety, and brave attempts were made to fit the buses into the time-honored system of overhauling at Aldenham Works, but finally the problems proved too much. After enormous expenditure, the first DMSs began to be withdrawn before the final RTs came out of service, and between 1979 and 1983 all but the B20s were sold as is widely known, the DMSs proved perfectly adequate with provincial operators once their London features had been removed. OPO was to become fashionable again in the 1980s as the politicians turned on London Transport itself, breaking it into pieces in order to sell it off. Not only did the B20 DMSs survive to something approaching a normal lifespan, but the new cheap operators awakening with the onset of tendering made use of the type to undercut LT, and it was not until 1993 that the last DMS operated.
Author | : David Beddall |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1526755610 |
Located in the Chiltern Hills, Luton has a rich transport history, being home to London Luton Airport and Vauxhall Motors. This south Bedfordshire town has also had an interesting public transport history, most notable being Luton Corporation Transport, Eastern National, United Counties and London Transport. The towns of Luton and Dunstable are linked by one of the longest guided busways in the world. Luton’s Transport takes a look at the development of Luton’s tramway, along with the development of bus and coach services in the Luton, Dunstable and Houghton Regis areas of Bedfordshire.
Author | : Oliver Green |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2016-10-31 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1473869404 |
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 | : 776 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Bus lines |
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Author | : Dr Philip Bagwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 1988-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134985010 |
An updated version of this classic book which includes an examination of transport developments since 1974, and particularly those of the Thatcher era.
Author | : Louise Nicholson |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781426200236 |
Highlights the history, culture, and contemporary life of the city and offers detailed walking tours of historic areas and complete visitor information.
Author | : Peter Headicar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2009-04-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134104979 |
A critical overview of the nature, evolution and contemporary challenges of transport policy and planning at the national and local scale while expanding on procedural mechanisms and forging much-needed links with the related discipline of spatial planning.