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Description: | People are queuing to board a 'workman's car' tram run by the London County Council. It is 7.12am on 18 April 1912 at Catford tram terminus in Brownhill Road.
These trams, which ran early in the morning, offered cheap fares to blue-collar workers. Trams were cheaper than buses since their larger size allowed them to carry more people at once.
The introduction of workman's fares allowed some poorer paid people to move out of inner-city tenements to suburban districts. They could afford to travel to their workplace instead of having to live nearby. Suburban rents were also lower than the inner-city rates for similar accommodation. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Work | Temporal: | 18 Apr 1912 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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