{"product_id":"nostalgic-look-at-liverpool-trams-1945-57-9781857940596","title":"Nostalgic Look at Liverpool Trams, 1945-57","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, the last Liverpool tram left the Pier Head to the cacophony of ships' sirens and hooters, and the famous 'Green Goddesses' departed for ever. The plan to scrap the trams deprived the city of one of Britain's most extensive, modern and forward-looking systems. At the end of the war there were 97 miles of routes, including some 28 miles running along purpose-built sub-urban reserved tracks. The 63 tram services were operated by 744 cars, almost half of which had only been built in the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Palmer, author of the very successful Blackpool volume, has teamed up with Liverpool tram expert Brian Martin to select and describe over 300 photographs, more than ever before in this series in a specially extended volume of over 130 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarting in the City Centre, we travel out by the various routes through the inner suburbs to such places as Seaforth, Aintree, Walton, Kirkby - and, of course, Ken Dodd's Knotty Ash -Woolton and Garston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther sections take a look behind the scenes at works and depots, portray some unusual events and accidents, then describe the finale when Liverpool bade a fond farewell to its trams. However, some cars survived to run in Glasgow, Birkenhead and even America, as well as those preserved at the National Tramway Museum at Crich. And there is even talk of the re-introduction of a modern tramway system, as in neighbouring Manchester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith its evocative street scenes of the post-war city and its suburbs, this is yet another irresistibly nostalgic top-deck tram ride down Memory Lane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 22x28cm, 132 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good with past owner's sticker IFC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silver Link","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (238)","offer_id":55752875245951,"sku":"9781857940596","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/files\/9781857940596_0c741f91-af28-4a0f-815f-2be66d7d98c5.jpg?v=1754476461","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/nostalgic-look-at-liverpool-trams-1945-57-9781857940596","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}