Tramways – Their Construction
and Working

D. Kinnear Clark, reprint of the 1894 edition, softback, 812pp, £28

CONTENTS:

Introduction of tramways; modern tramways in the United Kingdom; general statistics; capital, receipts and working expenditure of the North Metropolitan, London, London Street, South London, Birmingham Central, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Blackpool tramways, and the London General Omnibus Co.; construction of tramways in the Metropolis; Larsen’s fastening, London Street and Belfast Tramways; reconstruction of the North Metropolitan, London, London Street, South London, Liverpool, Dublin, Glasgow Corporation 1870-1873, & 1874-1875 Tramways; system of Messrs Johnstone and Rankine, Vale of Clyde; Beloe’s system – Southport and Wirral Tramways; Mackieson’s system – Dundee Street Tramways; Macrae’s system – Edinburgh Street Tramways; Kincaid’s Iron Way; Barker’s system – Manchester Corporation Tramways; Dowson’s Iron Way; Winby & Levick’s system; Wilson’s system – Southampton Street Tramways 1878; Dugdale’s system – Huddersfield Corporation Tramways (Inner Circle) 1881; Brunton’s system – City of Oxford and District Tramways; Vignoles’ system – North London Suburban, and North Staffordshire Tramways; Truswell’s system – Dewsbury, Batley and Birstal Tramways & Birstal & Gomerton extension; Kerr’s systems; special tramways; supplementary – on foreign tramways; the girder rail, and general conclusions on the construction of tramways; historical notice of tramway cars; inside-and-outside passenger car, constructed by the Metropolitan Railway Carriage & Waggon Co.; inside passenger car constructed by the Starbuck Car & Waggon Co.; inside-and-outside passenger car for steam traction constructed by the Falcon Engine and Car Works, Loughborough; radial-axle passenger car, by James Cleminson; French tramcars; Eade’s reversible car; bearing-springs, wheels, road and rail wagons with flangeless wheels; resistance to traction on tramways; historical notice of the application of mechanical power on tramways; current practice in the employment of steam power; calculation of steam locomotive power on tramways; fireless tramway locomotives; compressed-air locomotives and cars; cable traction; electric power as applied to tramways; early electrical tramways – Bessbrook and Newry Tramway; electrical tramways – Birmingham, Blackpool, Guernsey; City and South London Railway; Continental electrical railways – Florence and Fiesole Railway; Liverpool Overhead Railway; Roundhay Electric Tramway; South Staffordshire (Darlaston) Electric Tramway; Neversink Mountain Electric Railroad; supplementary chapters on oil motor, compressed gas motor, summary remarks on mechanical motors, and points and crossings; appendices: A. Parliamentary and official regulations; B. Capital costs, receipts, expenses and working stock of tramways in the United Kingdom for years ending 30th June 1891, 1892 & 1893; C. Total working expenditure on all the tramways of the United Kingdom for year ending 30 June 1893; D. Mileage length of street railways in the USA, with car stock, 1892 & 1893; E. Introduction of American street tramways into Europe (by Charles Burn); F. Tramways in Germany – a comparison between the cost of horse-traction and electric traction; G. Gas motors for tramways (by A.Kemper); H. List of electrical tramways in European countries (by R.Hammond). 420 illustrations.