The city of Bristol once possessed an extensive electric tramway network with routes radiating out from the centre to places like Westbury-on-Trym, Brislington, Hanham and Bedminster Downs. With a hi

Often little known and 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 is a pr

At the end of the 1950s steam was – for most European countries – still the primary source of power on the railways; diesel and electric traction was becoming increasingly dominant – particularly in