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Description: | The Last Tram Week is well remembered by many Londoners who were around in the 1950s. The event, in July 1952, was heavily publicised and many thousands of people took the chance to have a last ride.
However, London transport had been phasing out trams for several years. The decision to replace them had been made soon after the Second World War. As new diesel buses became available, they replaced tram services across London.
This photo shows a tram on route 31, which ran from Islington to Wandsworth. The tram, a class E/3, was on its last journey on 30 September 1950 is pictured at a tram stop on Southampton Row. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 30 Sep 1950 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Colin Tait | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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