The Tramways of Hong Kong
The Tramways of Hong Kong

Author: Peter Waller

Publisher: Unique Archives

Published: 2019-07

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9789887792857

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For more than a century, trams have plied their trade along the shore of Hong Kong Island. They have witnessed the transformation of the city from a colonial backwater to a financial powerhouse. Today, the trams still carry vast numbers of passengers daily, and Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world where you can ride a double-deck tram. Using fascinating photographs, most of which have never been published before, this book is a vivid reminder of how much Hong Kong has changed.

Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways
Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways

Author: Ric Francis

Publisher: Areca Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9789834283407

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"Which city once had the smallest trolley-bus in the world? Where do you find the first funicular railway in Southeast Asia? How do you recognize a trolley-bus pole? Where is Tramway Road?" "With over 100 old photographs, maps and illustrations, this book gives an overview of the various forms of public transport used in George Town from 1880s to 1963, and the role this transport played in the development of the growth of George Town and Penang." "Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established its own electric supply, it took over the tram service and started the electric trams in George Town in 1906. This gave the local population excellent public transport around George Town, with one line going up to Ayer Itam. In the late 1920s, the Municipality replaced trams with trolley-buses, experimenting for a while with re-conditioned double-deckers from London Transport!" "The Municipality also operated two railways - firstly, the Penang Hill Railway which was considered an engineering marvel when it was first built, and secondly, the electric railway which transported supplies and tin ingots for Penang's foremost smelting works."--BOOK JACKET.

Trams, Buses, and Rails
Trams, Buses, and Rails

Author: Ichirō Kakizaki

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9786162150807

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Trams, Buses, and Rails recounts the unique and little-known 130-year history of Bangkok's transportation system, from the first horse-powered tramway in 1888 to the mass transit urban railway of the twenty-first century. Using government archives and annual reports, the author deftly pieces together long-buried records and statistics to reconstruct the transportation policies of each successive metropolitan and national administration. He highlights the politicization and regulation of Bangkok's transport systems over the decades, and uncovers a series of setbacks, reversals, duplications, revisions, and cancellations that help to explain Bangkok's continuing transportation woes. A series of maps and tables elucidate the development of transportation routes and the rise and fall of the city's trams, railways, and bus lines.

The Melbourne Tram Book
The Melbourne Tram Book

Author: Randall Wilson

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1742247083

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Melbourne’s trams are more than a mode of transport. They are a symbol of the city. This fully updated new edition of The Melbourne Tram Book is a colourful and compact tribute to Melbourne’s famous trams, one of the city’s most enduring symbols. More than 200 photographs and illustrations show trams in the streetscapes of today and yesterday, with detailed commentary from tram experts Randall Wilson and Dale Budd.

Trams or Tailfins?
Trams or Tailfins?

Author: Jan L. Logemann

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0226491528

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In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions, Jan L. Logemann takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption in West Germany and the United States and the emergence of discrete consumer modernities. In Trams or Tailfins?, Logemann explains how the decisions made at this crucial time helped to define both of these economic superpowers in the second half of the twentieth century. While Americans splurged on private cars and bought goods on credit in suburban shopping malls, Germans rebuilt public transit and developed pedestrian shopping streets in their city centers—choices that continue to shape the quality and character of life decades later. Outlining the abundant differences in the structures of consumer society, consumer habits, and the role of public consumption in these countries, Logemann reveals the many subtle ways that the spheres of government, society, and physical space define how we live.

Trams and Trolleybuses
Trams and Trolleybuses

Author: Oliver Green

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1784422495

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From the horse-drawn trams of the nineteenth century to the larger electric models of the early twentieth, this reliable form of public transport revolutionised town travel by making it affordable enough for working people to use. From the 1930s, the rise of the trolleybus, which also picked up power from overhead cables but ran without expensive tracks, looked set to supersede the tram – but ultimately, by the 1950s, both fell victim to motor buses and private cars. However, since the 1980s the environmental benefits of light rail have encouraged a growing comeback for trams on our crowded and polluted city streets. Using beautiful contemporary photographs, this is the fascinating story of the rise, fall and revival of this everyday, yet sometimes controversial, mode of urban transport.

Bondi to the Opera House
Bondi to the Opera House

Author: Dale Budd

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780980772135

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Sydney's tram system was once one of the world's largest, extending from Narrabeen in the north to La Perouse in the south; rom Bondi in the east to Ryde in the west. Isolated steam-operated lines served other outlying districts.