Old Edinburgh Trams

by Kenneth Williamson

Edinburgh did not adopt electric traction until the early 1920s when the Corporation took over from the Edinburgh & District Tramway Co., with the process of converting the city's cable-operated routes to electric traction following soon after. The first electric trams started in Leith in 1905. At its height Edinburgh ran somewhere in the region of 360 trams throughout the city and possessed one of the most modern tramway systems in the UK. There...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445695537
• ISBN13: 9781445695532
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.2"