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Around The Glasgow Tramway System can be obtained from the Scottish Tramway and Transport Society, stts.glasgow@hotmail.com or call 07967329748. This book costs £42 plus £2 P and P. There is an STTS members discount of £4.
On Tuesday 4th September 1962 an estimated quarter of a million people turned out on the streets of Glasgow, in pouring rain, to bid a fond farewell to a form of transport that had been seen in the city since 1872 when horse trams started to ply their trade. On 13th October 1898 the first electric routes operated, with some of these trams remaining in service for over sixty years.
All of the photographs in this book were taken by Londoner Peter Mitchell who visited Glasgow on ten occasions between 1951 and 1962 during which time he took more than a thousand images of the city’s trams. The authors have used a new approach when compiling this book, as it details routes by groups rather than singly. All the images are either to half or full-page configuration which allows readers to study the trams and the background in which they worked in great detail.
The book portrays the city streets of Glasgow, its suburbs and the routes beyond its boundary. Standards, Coronations and Cunarders are shown to good effect with each picture having the date and time it was taken. Many believe that Glasgow was the greatest tramway city in the United Kingdom; this book illustrates why they think that. The procession of twenty cars from Dalmarnock depot to Coplawhill Works is shown and, despite the inclement weather, the views benefit from someone with a good knowledge of camera settings.
An animated dialogue of a tramway enthusiast driving tram 488 many miles around the city on 3rd June 1961 is compelling reading. The opportunity has been taken to include what is a unique photographic record of tram 1282 taking part on a special run from Dalmarnock depot to Clydebank and back on Thursday 6th September 1962. A loose-leaf map drawn by master cartographer John Gillham is included; this allows the reader to follow each service and complements the way in which the authors describe them in each chapter. This 228-page book, comprising of 406 monochrome images, is priced very reasonably at £42.00 plus 2.00 postage and packing.
HARDBACK 228 Pages

406 half and full-page B&W images 

Large pull-out John Gillham Map

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DVD’s/VIDEOS

LOOK BACK AT GLASGOW’S TRAMS AND TROLLEYBUSES****………………………………………………………………………………..£14.95 (Online Video & Midland Counties Publishing) Popular 45-minute video, mostly in colour with soundtrack. Commentary written by Ian Stewart, spoken by Alan Condie.
GLASGOW TRAMS Part One (OnlineVideo)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………£13.00 Two hours, mainly in colour with rare historical footage maps and commentary. Detailed coverage of Glasgow tram services both in the city and over the boundary, abandoned between 1955 and 1959. DVD
GLASGOW ‘TRAMS Part Two (Online Video)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….£13.00 Two hours mostly in colour. Detailed coverage of all Glasgow services abandoned between 1960 and 1962. Last Tram procession. Garden Festival. DVD
ABERDEEN TRAMS (Online Video)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….£11.00 Eighty minutes, some footage in colour. Coverage of Aberdeen tram routes abandoned 1955-58 including Woodside. Hazelhead, Sea Beach, Bridge of Dee, and finally Bridge of Don. Last procession with horse car, 3 May 1958. DVD
DUNDEE TRAMS (Online Video)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..£11.00 Sixty five minutes, mainly in colour. Coverage of Blackness, Downfield, Lochee, and Maryfield-Ninewells trams, Newtyle railway, Tay ferries. DVD
GLASGOW UNDERGROUND (Online Video)……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..£16.00 One-hour look over the past thirty years covering pre and post modernisation to 1992 trailers. DVD

OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE:- This video is VHS 625 Pal Standard

BOOKS

THE GLASGOW TRAMCAR (1994 edition) by Ian Stewart…………………………………………………………………………………………..£9.95 A4, 200 pp, limp covers with 350 photos (25 in colour). A completely new and updated edition of this acclaimed work, long out of print. Full details of the Glasgow electric tramcar fleet 1898 -1962 and its preservation. Glasgow Garden Festival is also included.
GREEN CARS TO HURLFORD by Brian T. Deans………………………………………………………………………………………………………….£1.50 A5, 72pp. full colour cover, 57 illustrations. The history of Kilmarnock Corporation trams and motor omnibuses 1904-1931, plus abortive tram schemes for Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Largs.
THE REGENERATIVE BRAKING STORY by Dr. Struan Robertson & John Markham…………………………………………………..£35.00 The development of regenerative braking as applied to tramcars & trolleybuses in Britain and beyond.
BYGONE GLASGOW by Martin Jenkins and Ian Stewart………………………………………………………………………………………….£14.99
A look back at the period 1949-1969 with colour views of every mode of transport that existed in the Greater Glasgow
area. ‘Best in series’ according to ‘Classic Bus’ review.
DESTINATION CRICH – GLASGOW CORONATION 1282 by Wim Beukenkamp………………………………………………………….£6.95
31 page A5 size booklet, fully illustrated. A history of the tram currently at Crich. All funds from sale to go to
restoring 1282 to full operational condition.
 THE WEARING OF THE GREEN – Reminisences of Glasgow Trams by William M Tollan
A4, 96 pp, limp covers with 98 photos (13 in colour). Interesting personal reminiscences of Glasgow’s Trams. 1948 Tram & Bus Map, List of route letters pre 1938. Destination screens details………………………………………………………………………. £5.00
Edwin Catford’s EDINBURGH by Alan Brotchie.
24cms x 17cms., limp covers, 56 photos taken in the 1920s and 1930s of Edinburgh’s transport, 38 tram, 17 bus photos…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..£4.00
GLASGOW SUBWAY ALBUM by George Watson. Second Edition
A4, 65pp, card covers, 185 colour images. A collection of photographs taken from the pre-modernisation period through reconstruction to the transformed system. Small packet of tickets included………………………………………………………….£6.00

Other Items

1282 Coronation Appeal Fund Fridge Magnets…………………………………………………………………………………………………………£2.00

Car Sticker – Coronation Tram 1282 (Now at Crich)…………………………………………………………………………………………………..£0.75
 

SCOTTISH TRANSPORT

The following Back Numbers of the Society's illustrated magazine are available:

No.40Electrification of the Glasgow Subway 1932-40 Part I, The Blackpool Tram Centenary, Pardon, our screen has Slipped, The Govan Branch Railway, Strathclyde Transport Electric Train News, Glasgow Underground News………………£1.50

No.41Electrification of the Glasgow Subway Part II, Subway Immortality, Farewell Alexander: Farewell SMT, The Poloc & Govan Railway, What’s in a number, Things to come – 1897 style! Passed Out…………………………………………..£1.75

No.42Competing for passengers, De-Regulating Strathclyde’s Bus services. Trams without wires (Aspects of petrol trams), The Ayr line………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….£2.45

No.43Glasgow Museum of Transport notes, A Lanarkshire Jigsaw Puzzle, The Kingston dock disaster of 1914, Former Scottish Independent bus operators, Trams Without Wires, a postscript, Strathclyde Bus De-Regulation……………………..£2.10

No.44Paisley’s early transport, Glasgow Garden Festival, Belgian surprise at Coatbridge…………………………………………..£2.50

No.45Five colour views; Glasgow’s early Horse Buses, more discoveries about Edinburgh’s Horse Trams, Restoration of Edinburgh 226, Albion’s 90 years (photo feature), ‘Doon the Watter’ in the thirties………………………………………………………£3.45

No.46Five colour views, 30 years of Glasgow’s Blue Trains, Tram v. Bus Wars on Dumbarton Road, Grahams Bus Services of Paisley……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..£3.95

No.47Jack House tribute, A wartime conductress remembers, Bus driving in Glasgow, Ferries across the Forth, 12 colour views…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….£4.40

No.48Municipalisation and the Midden Men, Modelling the Standard Cars, Glasgow Depot Fires, Manchester Metrolink.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….£3.95

No.49Powering Glasgow Transport-11, Aberdeen’s Trams 1943-1958, the new `GCT, TSS Caledonian Princess, and 16 colour views……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..£4.40

No.50Woman in WW1, Glasgow Twys, PS Waverley, 20 Years of Preservation, Glasgow TDI, 37 colour views……………..£4.40

No.51Apprentice at Coplawhill Wks, Edinburgh Experimental Trams 1932-3, McGill’s Buses at Seventy-Five, 37 Colour views……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………£4.40

No.52Sweet 16 – Glasgow car 16, Wartime Travel, The one and only 101, Glasgow’s missed transport opportunities£4.95

No.53OUT OF PRINT.

No.54Scottish Electric Tramcars: A Profile of their sources, The Last Days of Glasgow Trams, Railplane to Bellahouston, Edinburgh Cable Trams. Their Life and Death, Caley Double Deckers……………………………………………………………………………£5.50

No.55Suburban Myth: -Glasgow’s Railway System, Monstrous Mass of Shimmering Tin-Edinburgh 798, Caley Apprentice: – An Apprentice in St. Rollox, Greenstaff: – Paisley trams in Corporation days………………………………………………………………….£5.50

No.56 – *Metropolitan City, A Perth Survivor, Albions Galore, Glasgow’s Museum of Transport, Memorable trips to Bervie, Where there’s a will….., A Rolling Stone, Greenstaff Part II, View from the platform, Trams for Hire, Duntocher Cars……£5.50

No.57Twilight of the Trams, The Portobello Cars, Some Nostalgic Journey, To the Breezy Hills, The Westwell Years, The Return of the Venturer. TMS 50, Major Subway Upgrade, Horror at Haymarket, 1017 and all that………………………….£5.95

No.581938 Empire Exhibition, 1938 & the Coronations, Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust, Edinburgh Tram service 19, Building Glasgow’s Subway…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..£5.95

No.59Glasgow Coronations, 1938-49, Memories of a ‘Western’ apprentice, ‘Dolly’s Mixture’ Paisley Independents, The Magnificent Obsession, Six is memorable, Some Guys I knew……………………………………………………………………………………….£5.95

No.60Glasgow Coronations, 1950-62, Pictorial tribute to Aberdeen’s Trams, Steam in the Far North, A Tale of two Rivers, A Flight of Fancy, Nothing much new under the Sun, The Enigma variation…………………………………………………………………..£5.95

No.61An Edinburgh survivor (horse tram), The Edinburgh Manchester’s, Beyond the witching hour (Glasgow PW Dept.) Fares Please! (Glasgow Numerical Ptg.Co.) As ithers see us, 20W Carriage Bulb Society………………………………………………..£5.95

No.62 The Greenock Railway Flooding 1912, Dalrymple makes it simple, A lifetime’s work, In the 1950’s, nine served Paisley! (Independent Bus operators), Dundee’ Trackless Trams, The Utility Albions, The Edinburgh Streamliners…………………….£5.95

No.63 The Riverside Museum Opens, Diamond Jubilee of the STTS, Steamer services on Loch Tay, My memories of Glasgow Tram tours, Edinburgh Shrubhill Standards 1934, Relinquishing the Editor’s chair, Scotland’s tram in Glasgow…………….£6.50

No.64 Aberdeen’s Trams, A Choral Symphony, Summerlee Tramway in 2012, Glasgow Closure Commemoration, Aberdeen Preserved Buses, New Tram for Edinburgh, A Failed preservation attempt, Great Edinburgh Tram Parade…………………..£6.50

No.65Trams in a time warp (Dundee), Edinburgh Tram Service 16, Glasgow at the cutting edge of Museum development A cruise on the Forth & Clyde Canal, We’re all going on a summer holiday – Glasgow Buses, Glasgow 488……………………£6.50

No.66 Back to the future, Trams return to the capital, Child of War, The Stronachie Distillery Tramway, Musselburgh Trams, The Deeside Line, Millennium might have been, Great Scottish Inventor, Robert Wm.Thomson, Liner ‘Off-Piste’..…………£6.50

No.67Western SMT ‘oddities’, Borders Railway Prelude, Semi-High speed trams in Glasgow, Edinburgh Trams in snow, Where Angels Fear to sail, Alexander Atlantean Ambassadors, New Edinburgh Trams, Letter to the Editor………………….£6.50

No.68Glasgow’s ex-Paisley Trams, The only double-Deck Cable Tram in the World, Unusual journey by MacBrayne’s “Columba”, First steps in Scotland, Narrow-Gauge Scottish Gasworks Locomotives, Stark’s Buses of Dunbar………………£6.50

No.69 A Paisley Boyhood with Trams (And some buses too), Northern Roadways, Family Picnic 1940s style, Getting to Waterloo St, The Glasgow Tramcar, mysteries finally solved, Letters to the Editor, Brian Longworth – An Appreciation.. £4.00

No.70 Edinburgh builds, rebuilds and rebodies, Scotland’s Island Tramroads, Model Trams & Exhibition layouts, Glasgow Trams – a poem, Night Trams – in Glasgow, a day out in Dundee, Ian Stewart obituary…..………….………£5.00

No.71 Aberdeen tram No.15 and its preservation, Edinburgh Bus rebuilds and rebodies, Scottish Model Trams, Can you *shed any light?, Alexander 266, Book Review, Memories of Dixon’s Pugs, A crashed Lancaster?………………………£6.50

No.72 Glasgow Lightweight cars, Royal Deeside battery railcar, Daimler Fleetline, Edinburgh Standard trams, Aberdeen buses and shelters, Lothian Buses in lockdown………..………………………………………………………………………………………………….<strong>£7.50**

No.73 *Aberdeen Enclosed Standard Cars, Dalmarnock Depot Fire, Rothesay Tramways: A Walk to Ettrick Bay, Rothesay Tramways: Researches into the History, Glasgow Three-Car Tram Trains……………..£7.50

No.74 Glasgow Duntocher branch. Glasgow 60 years ago closure events, Third-Hand Trams, Dundee Ferries. More Electric Buses in Glasgow……………………………..£6.50

No.75 Edinburgh cable trams. Aberdeen two-axle Streamliners. Glasgow subway rolling stock, Edinburgh Newhaven extension, West Scotland electric buses, Edinburgh cable tram 226. Aberdeen anniversaries………………………………………..£7.50

No.76 Biddy’s Brummie Cousins, The Phoenix Tram. Leith Corporation Tramways, 1905-1920, Edinburgh Tram Tickets, New book on Edinburgh Trams, B.A.E in Scotland in the 1960s, Edinburgh Cable Tram Artefacts……………………………………………£8.50

The Society now has available a limited number of SCOTTISH TRAMLINES Nos.1-17 and SCOTTISH TRANSPORT Nos.18 - 39 available for sale. Please contact stts.glasgow@hotmail.com to request price.