Reading trolleybuses:
Everything you ever wanted to know about the silent, smooth and pollution-free trolleybuses of Reading in a new book, published to commemorate 50 years since their disappearance. Telling the whole story of the history, the politics, the economics and the many dedicated individuals who made the servi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Everything you ever wanted to know about the silent, smooth and pollution-free trolleybuses of Reading in a new book, published to commemorate 50 years since their disappearance. Telling the whole story of the history, the politics, the economics and the many dedicated individuals who made the service provided by Reading?s trolleybuses exemplary, with a few local difficulties along the way. From the tentative trials and then free rides on a trolleybus on Erleigh Road in 1936, through heydays in the 1950s and 1960s to closure in November 1968. The story presented is detailed and comprehensive, told over 278 pages, together with 412 photographs, maps and diagrams. An entirely new edition, based on Trolleybooks' 1991 publication, but thoroughly updated |
| Beschreibung: | 279 Seiten 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780904235289 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES
FOR
GUIDANCE
CHAPTER
I-
OVERTURES
AND
PIPEDREAMS
CHAPTER
2- ON
TO
REAL
SCHEMES
CHAPTER
3-
TOWARDS
A
FULL
SYSTEM
CHAPTER
4- THE
DARK DAYS
OF
WAR
CHAPTER
5- DAWN
OF
A
NEW
ERA
CHAPTER
6- THE
EX-HUDDERSFIELD
KARRIERS
SAGA
CHAPTER
7-
EXPANSION
IN
THE
BOOM
YEARS
CHAPTER
8-
BREAD
AND
BUTTER
DAYS
CHAPTER
9-
REPRIEVE
AND
A
TIME
FOR CHANGE
CHAPTER
10
-
THE MELLOW
YEARS
CHAPTER
II-
DIFFICULT
TIMES
CHAPTER
12
-
THE
FIGHT
THAT
WAS
LOST
CHAPTER
13
-
TOWARDS
THE
INEVITABLE
CHAPTER
14
-
COPING
WITH
UPHEAVAL
CHAPTER
15
-
ABANDONMENT
IN EARNEST
CHAPTER
16
-
TWILIGHT
OF
THE
MAIN
LINE
CHAPTER
17
-A
FOND
FAREWELL
CHAPTER
18
-
LIFE
BEYOND
ABANDONMENT
THE
EXTENT
OF
THE
READING
TROLLEYBUS
SYSTEM
WIRING.
MAXIMUM
OPERATIONAL
LENGTH
WAS
ACHIEVED
C
1963.
SEE
PAGE
212 FOR
MORE
DETAIL.
4
APPENDIX
A-
TROLLEYBUS
ROLLING
STOCK
5
APPENDIX B- ANCILLARY
VEHICLES
173
199
5
APPENDIX
C-
OVERHEAD
WIRING
AND
POWER DISTRIBUTION
203
7
APPENDIX
D-
SUMMARY
OF
OPERATING POWERS
AND
MAP
209
13
APPENDIX
E- DESTINATION
BLIND
LAYOUTS
215
23
APPENDIX
F-
TROLLEYBUSES
FOR
TRAMS
-
THE
1934
PROPOSALS 219
39
APPENDIX
G-
THE
ATTEMPT
AT
SHORT-TERM
TROLLEYBUS
RETENTION
220
49
APPENDIX
H-
LAST
USE
OF
WIRING (1967-1968)
221
59
APPENDIX
I-
REMOVAL
OF
OVERHEAD
INSTALLATIONS
222
65
APPENDIX
J-
DATES
OF
ARRIVALS
OF
F4AS
AND
DISPOSAL
OF
AECS
223
81
APPENDIX
K-
BEHIND
THE
SCENES
-A
TYPICAL
WORKING DAY
224
STAFF
MEMORIES
OF
WORKING
ON
TROLLEYBUSES
225
93
MAINTAINING
A
TROLLEYBUS
FLEET
INCLUDING
STAFF
MEMORIES
235
99
APPENDIX
L-
ROUTE
GALLERY
247
DEPOT
WORKINGS
250
115
BROAD
STREET
TO
NORCOT
JUNCTION
252
NORCOT
JUNCTION
TO
TILEHURST
254
127
NORCOT
JUNCTION
TO
KENTWOOD
256
BROAD
STREET
TO
CEMETERY
JUNCTION
258
129
CEMETERY
JUNCTION
TO
WOKINGHAM
ROAD
260
CEMETERY
JUNCTION
TO
LIVERPOOL
ROAD
262
133
TUDOR
ROAD
TO
CAVERSHAM
BRIDGE
264
ST MARY S
BUTTS
TO
STATIONS
266
137
ST MARY S
BUTTS
TO
WHITLEY
STREET
268
WHITLEY
STREET
TO
BUCKLAND
ROAD
JUNCTION
270
147
BUCKLAND
ROAD
JUNCTION
TO
NORTHUMBERLAND
AVENUE
272
BUCKLAND
ROAD
JUNCTION
TO
WHITLEY
WOOD
274
153
163
APPENDIX
M-
BIBLIOGRAPHY
275
APPENDIX
N-
INDEX
276
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