Trams Across the Wear: Remembering Sunderland’s Electric Trams

by Stephen Lockwood. Laminated hardback. 160pp, £35

CONTENTS:

Author’s note

Bibliography

Foreword
     Ah yes, I remember them well A personal introduction by Malcolm Fraser MBE

The Story of Sunderland’s Trams
Beginnings
     Early electric
     The 1920s – a decade of change
     The 1930s – the Hopkins era
     The war years and aftermath
     The 1950s – the closing years

Sunderland’s Tram Routes Roker and Seaburn
     The Docks
     Villette Road via Tatham Street
     Grangetown
     Durham Road
     Circle via Kayll Road
     Southwick
     Fulwell and Seaburn
     The Wheat Sheaf to the Gas Office corner

The Tram Fleet – 1931 to 1954

The End of the Line

Afterlife

Tailpiece

Maps and Tables Tram fleet 1930
     Tram fleet 1948
     Horse Tramways
     Electric tramways at their maximum extent 1949
     Tramway depots
     Chronological development of the electric tramway system
     Sunderland District Electric Tramways

A last look – photographs from the A.W. Brotchie collection

Tickets – a selection from the A.E. Old collection