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THE KEIGHLEY AND WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY

PETER WALLER

Now preserved for almost sixty years, the former Midland Railway branch from Keighley to Oxenhope to the west of Bradford may not be one of the country's longest – indeed it only stretches for just under five miles – but it is one of the country's most popular preserved lines. With a history stretching back to the mid-nineteenth century, the Keighley & Worth Valley provided an ...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS

PETER WALLER

Part of a four-volume history of trolleybus systems across Britain, this book covers operations based in Wales, the Midlands, and East Anglia. The first British experiments with trolleybus systems began in the first decade of the twentieth century. They were meant to be a low-cost means of supplementing tram services in lightly trafficked areas and providing links to communitie...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS: LONDON & SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND

PETER WALLER

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses. There had been earlier experimental users – in places like Hove and London – and as the tide turne...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS

PETER WALLER

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses. Some of the earliest operators were in Lancashire, northern England and Scotland; indeed Scotland ...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS - LANCASHIRE, NORTHERN IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND

PETER WALLER

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the ‘trackless tram’ (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country’s pioneering operators of trolleybuses. Some of the earliest operators were in Lancashire, northern England and Scotland; indeed Scotland ...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS—YORKSHIRE

PETER WALLER

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses. Whilst, in Leeds, the trolleybus was destined to have a fairly peripheral role (and finally disapp...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS - SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

PETER WALLER

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses. Whilst, in Leeds, the trolleybus was destined to have a fairly peripheral role (and finally disapp...

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YORKSHIRE AND NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND

PETER WALLER

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, thr...

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SCOTLAND

PETER WALLER

"Waller dips successfully into the social history north of the border during the first half of the twentieth century, when trams were the urban transport kings." —Evergreen Focusing on Scotland, this book provides an overview of the history of tramways north of the border from the 1940s, when the first horse-drawn service linking Inchture village to Inchture station opened, t...

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THE BLACKPOOL STREAMLINED TRAMS

PETER WALLER

"What a variety are pictured here! Double deck 'balloon' cars, single deckers including open topped cars and various illuminated cars, a specialty of the town." —York Model Engineers newsletter In the early 1930s the tramcar in Blackpool was at a crossroads; the system needed investment in both new track and new trams while there was a serious threat that the "town" routes migh...

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THE LONDON 'E/1' TRAM

PETER WALLER

"A fine tribute to the thousand-strong fleet of E/1 trams which gave such sterling service to Londoners for nearly fifty years, including two world wars." —Tramway Review Probably the single most numerous of tramcar constructed for operation on Britain's first generation electric tramways, the London County Council's 'E/1' class had an operational history that stretched for alm...

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LONDON TRANSPORT

PETER WALLER

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,...

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WALES, ISLE OF MAN & IRELAND, POST 1945

PETER WALLER

This is the fourth book in a series that covers the history of the tram systems of the British Isles post-war. It covers the networks in Wales, the Isle of Man and Ireland.Peter Waller examines the history of the tramways in Ireland, Wales and on the Isle of Man. With three different legislative frameworks, the history of the systems covered are very different from the survivin...

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MIDLANDS & SOUTHERN ENGLAND

PETER WALLER

This volume is the latest in a series of tramway books covering Britains post war tram networks. The book covers the systems that survived the Second World War, in the Midlands and Southern 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 a superb range of images - many of ...

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BRITAIN'S SECOND-HAND TRAMS

PETER WALLER

During the history of Britain’s electric tramcar fleets, many thousands were manufactured of which the vast majority saw out their operational life with a single owner. However, for several hundred there was to be a second – if not, in certain cases, a third – career with a new operator. Almost from the dawn of the electric era in the late 19th century tramcars were loaned or b...

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BRITAIN'S PRESERVED TRAMS

PETER WALLER

It is almost 100 years since the first tram was preserved in Britain, in the century since then a great variety of trams have been saved from tramway systems small and large. Some trams were purchased directly out of service and others were acquired after many years alternative usage, some being summer houses or homes, while others were used on farms or allotments where they se...

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WORKS TRAMS OF THE BRITISH ISLES

PETER WALLER

A photographic overview of the little-known cars and engineers that kept British tramways running smoothly and safely. While generally unfamiliar to the passengers that used tramways, works trams were an essential facet of the efficient operation of any system—large or small—and this book presents an overview of the great variety of works trams that served the first generatio...

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WALES, ISLE OF MAN & IRELAND, POST 1945

PETER WALLER

This is the fourth book in a series that covers the history of the tram systems of the British Isles post-war. It covers the networks in Wales, the Isle of Man and Ireland.Peter Waller examines the history of the tramways in Ireland, Wales and on the Isle of Man. With three different legislative frameworks, the history of the systems covered are very different from the survivin...

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THE RAILWAYS OF BRADFORD AND LEEDS

PETER WALLER

It was to the south-west of Leeds that one of the key lines in the development of Britain’s railway network – the Middleton Railway – established the principle of seeking parliamentary sanction for the construction of a new form of transport. Five decades later in the early nineteenth century it was again the Middleton Railway that was at the forefront of the use of steam – rat...

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THE KEIGHLEY AND WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY

PETER WALLER

Now preserved for almost sixty years, the former Midland Railway branch from Keighley to Oxenhope to the west of Bradford may not be one of the country’s longest – indeed it only stretches for just under five miles – but it is one of the country’s most popular preserved lines. With a history stretching back to the mid-nineteenth century, the Keighley & Worth Valley provided an ...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS - WALES, MIDLANDS AND EAST ANGLIA

PETER WALLER

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the ‘trackless tram’ (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country’s pioneering operators of trolleybuses. There had been earlier experimental users – in places like Hove and London – and as the tide turne...

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BRITISH TROLLEYBUS SYSTEMS - LONDON AND SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND

PETER WALLER

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the ‘trackless tram’ (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country’s pioneering operators of trolleybuses. There had been earlier experimental users – in places like Hove and London – and as the tide turne...

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