Trams - Great Britain: Books - History and Types (2/2)

Regional Tramways - Yorkshire and North East of England

This is the second of a new series of books that will cover the history of tramway operation in the British Isles. Focusing on Yorkshire and the North-East of England, this book provides an overview of the history of tramways in the region from the 1860s, when one of the pioneering horse trams that predated the Tramways Act of 1870 operated for a brief period in Darlington, through to the closures of the last traditional tramways - Leeds and Sheffield - in 1959 and 1960, respectively.

Concentrating on the systems that survived into 1945 - Bradford, Gateshead, Hull, Leeds, Newcastle, Rotherham, Sheffield, South Shields and Sunderland - the book provides a comprehensive narrative, detailing the history of these operations from 1945 onwards, with full fleet lists, maps and details of route openings and closures.
The story is supported by some 200 illustrations, both colour and black and white.

Early Tramways In Yorkshire: a Golden Age

Via breathtaking, pin-sharp photographs - sourced from rare postcards and exclusive glass plate negatives - this book lavishly illustrates the early years of tramways across Yorkshire from Sheffield to Hull, from Doncaster to Keighley and areas in between including Rotherham, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds.
The onlooker today, besides being at one with the enthralled locals celebrating their new tramway systems, will not resist being enchanted by the everyday street scenes and people going about their daily lives, examples of which abound page after page in this glimpse into a long forgotten age.

Regional Tramways - Midlands and South East England

This volume is the latest in a series of tramway books covering Britain's post war tram networks. The book covers the systems that survived the Second World War, in the Midlands and the South East of England, except London which will have a separate book.

This extensive volume, covers all the post war systems from their inception, through to closure, with often rare unpublished pictures depicting each operation, from horse tram days through to the end.
The book has good maps and material that will be of value to tramway modellers, with a selection of colour illustrations for livery details.

Regional Tramways - Wales, Isle of Man and Ireland, Post 1945

This is the latest book in a series that covers the history of Britain's post war tram systems. This volume covers the networks in Wales, the Isle of Man and Ireland.

Peter Waller, has looked at each system and found new material, that has not been published before, in any previous publication. All the networks covered in this book, managed to survive the second World War and in some cases operated into the early or mid 1950s, before being replaced by bus operations.

The volume is well illustrated, with some very rare B & W and colour material, previously never published.