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The runaway tram
So recently I watched a film on my Dad’s recommendation. Now ordinarily I’d have approached this with extreme caution, but he very quickly managed to sell it to me. It had Denzel Washington in it he said. It had trains … Continue reading
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Tagged 1885, accident, banks, Bradford, cullen, jacobs, public transport, steam tram, Umpleby
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Rush hour, gardening, and women.
In the aftermath of the Great War London’s public transport was in a crisis. Infrastructure had been run down, locomotives and buses had been sent to France, and passenger numbers had soared. In 1918 the Underground Electric Railways Company, which … Continue reading
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Tagged london transport, public transport, rush hour, social history, underground
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