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Description: | This shot was taken on a rainy London day in 1939. The man, a tramway points operator, is wearing a long mackintosh, boots, gaiters and a sou'wester hat.
When trams ran in London, they ran on tracks laid down the middle of the street that were buried into the road surface. Tracks were shared by trams when their routes ran along the same stretch of road. Where trams changed to follow different routes, tramway points were installed. These points could be adjusted to connect one track to a number of others. The points man is switching points using a long lever. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Work | Temporal: | 16 Nov 1939 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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