Description
This book is a pictorial history of Brisbane’s trams from 1959 to 1969. The book is 175 x 240 mm size of 60 Pages, Colour Cover & Black & White text/photographs by Howard R. Clark and David R. Keenan reprinted 2018 with updates.
As Sunday, April 13, 1969 drew to a close the last trams ran in the streets of Brisbane, after serving the Queensland capital for more than eighty years.
The last decade of Brisbane’s trams coincided with a time of major change within the city. A new skyline was emerging to overshadow the imposing structure of the City Hall clock tower and new suburbs were developing beyond the tram termini. Steam engines were being replaced on the suburban railway system and regional shopping centres were built to accommodate the expansion of the city.
For many years the tramway system was identified by its distinctive silver, and subsequently light grey, painted cars; many of which had open sided centre compartments and drop down driver’s windscreens, concessions to the warm sub-tropical climate of the city. The “foreign legion” style caps, worn until the latter years of the system by the generally courteous and friendly crews, were also unique to Brisbane. Residents and visitors alike appreciated the frequent and reliable services provided by the trams which in turn reflected the friendly lifestyle of the city they served.
Gone forever are the days when “dreadnought” and “drop-centre” trams combined with the modern four-motor (FM) cars to move heavy peak hour concentrations of city workers; when teenagers jumped aboard trams in the evenings and at weekends to reach the city and entertainment centres and when on weekdays suburban housewives joined the cars to converge on the city or the nearby busy centres of Fortitude Valley (“The Valley”) and Woolloongabba (“The Gabba”). This sustained patronage justified the ten minute daytime memory timetables on weekdays which in turn contributed to one of the highest levels of public transport usage in Australia at that time.
Sixty pages of photographs and text record the operations of the Brisbane tramway system during its last decade. This book is presented as a tribute to the city of Brisbane and its trams during that period.
Price includes GST. Item(s) can be pick up from museum site or can be posted within Australia.
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RETURNS
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BTMS will accept product returns and provide you with an exchange item or item cost refund where:
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