Next Stop Seaton. 55 Years of Modern Electric Tramways Ltd. 2nd enlarged and revised edition

D. Jay and D. Voice. B5 softback, 142pp, coloured covers, £20

Subtitled “50 years of Modern Electric Tramways Limited, the complete and official history of the Seaton and District Tramway and the Modern Electric Tramways Company”. 
“...the full story is told, often in great detail, from the early years with temporary installations, the short period at St. Leonards’-on-Sea to the more permanent homes at Eastbourne, and latterly Seaton. The illustrations throughout are superb, and appropriately illustrate the text. The section describing tramcars is comprehensive: every car is fully described with technical information and an illustration. Despite the wealth of information included the book is most readable, and is produced to the superb standards we have come to expect from Adam Gordon. Well worth buying, and a fitting tribute to 50 years of effort.” [The Journal of the Tramway Museum Society].

CONTENTS:

Introduction
Chapter 1 Claude Lane and Allan Gardner
Chapter 2 Fêtes, Garden Parties and St Leonards
Chapter 3 Voryd Park, Rhyl
Chapter 4 The Eastbourne Era, 1954-1969
Chapter 5 The Seaton Line and Building the Tramway
Chapter 6 Developments on the Seaton Line
Chapter 7 How to Run a Tramway
Chapter 8 The Future of the Seaton Tramway
Appendix 1 Monograms (and other Decalcomania), by Stan Letts
Appendix 2 The Tramcar Fleet
Appendix 3 Table of Tramcars
Bibliography