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.
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Dimensions: 216 x 282mm
Publication Date: 16 Jul 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781473861909
About Peter Waller
Brought up in Bradford Peter grew up as the city's trolleybus network gradually declined. In 1986 Peter commenced in a career in publishing working for a number of years as Ian Allan Ltds Publisher (Books) where he oversaw the commissioning and publication of a wide range of books. The first book that he wrote was British and Irish Tramway Systems since 1945 in 1992. Since then he has written a number of books on transport subjects. Moving to Shropshire in 2007 Peter is now a full-time author and editor. He is also a director and secretary of the Online Transport Archive a director of Shrewsbury Dial-a-Ride a trustee of the West Shropshire Talking Newspaper a committee member of the National Railway Heritage Awards and a past president of the Rotary Club of Shrewsbury.