Trams and Trolleybuses by Oliver Green

Author:Oliver Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784422493
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

The Kingsway Subway in London was enlarged to take double-deck trams in 1931. This is the underground tram station at Holborn. The subway closed in 1952 but most of it survives almost intact and the northern ramp in Southampton Row still has conduit tram track in place.

By the mid-1930s it was not only the smaller urban tramway systems that had been replaced. Trams had been succeeded by trolleybuses in Bournemouth, Nottingham and Portsmouth by 1936. The company-run Bristol network, the urban electric pioneer, was purchased by the council in 1937 and the first bus replacements followed in 1938. There were route closures in Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle and Plymouth. A handful of systems including Aberdeen, Leeds, Sheffield and Sunderland continued to invest in modern trams while trimming back their networks.

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