Description

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This is one of four volumes to cover the history of electric tramcar operation in
London; concentrating on the routes to the northeast, the system in this area was largely the result of development by a number of local authorities and was converted largely to trolleybus operation in the years leading to 1940. Amongst locations featured are Barking, llford, East Ham and West Ham.

About the Author

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Brought up in Bradford, Peter Waller grew up witnessing the gradual decline of the city s trolleybus network. His first book, British and Irish Tramway Systems since 1945, was published in 1992 and since then he has written extensively on trans-port subjects. Moving to Shropshire in 2007, he is now a full-time author and editor and well as being a director and secretary of the Online Transport Archive and a committee member of the National Railway Heritage Awards.