A Century of Edinburgh’s Trams and Buses celebrates a hundred years of service by Scotland’s capital city’s publicly-owned transport operators – Edinburgh Corporation, Lothian Region Transport and Lothian Buses. Highly-respected transport author Gavin Booth shares his knowledge and enthusiasm for his native city and its main transport operator in this well-written and beautifully-illustrated volume covering topics ranging from the ‘Pilrig Muddle’ of the 1920s to hybrid and electric buses and a new tramway in the 21st century.
The story starts in 1919 when Edinburgh Corporation took over and quickly modernised the city’s tramway services, and then explores the evolution from Edinburgh Corporation Transport to today’s Lothian Buses.
Over the period of 100 years the city has changed and traffic congestion has worsened but this book tells how Lothian Buses and its predecessors worked to ensure that the citizens of Edinburgh enjoyed a public transport service which was the envy of cities elsewhere in Britain.
Superbly-illustrated throughout with recent colour and archive black & white photographs. Hardback. 144 pages.