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LONDON'S TRAMWAYS |
These are photographs taken or collected by the late A.J. (John) Wills during the years of operation of the London tramway system between 1903 to 1952. Over 2000 photographs are available.
There are pages of notes and tables that John compiled during his lifetime. It is hoped that these notes will give a service history of tramcars that are pictured, and also the day to day running and history of the first generation of London tramways.
The Wills photographic negatives are in the archive of the Tramway and Light Railway Society, who are storing them for use by future generations of tram historians. Those views are copyright-owned by the T.L.R.S. They must not be copied or reproduced without prior permission. The original photographic database was created by John Wills's son, also John Wills, who sadly passed away in November 2014.
To enable you to find the photographs that interest you please use the Picture Search function. Note, cookies must be enabled for the database search software to work. There are four searches available, Search by Location, Search by Class of car, Search for cars on a specific numbered service and Search by car number.
In the early days, the trolleybus was sometimes known as the trackless tram. The London trolleybuses replaced the trams in areas mostly North of the Thames in the 1930s, and ran until 1962, tram services continuing South of the river until being replaced by diesel buses in 1952. Here is a selection of photographs from the camera of the late W.J.Haynes, showing examples of the London Trolleybus.
Postcard of the Month. Many of the postcards are of London tramways and include a short history.
Historical Tramway Photographs. A selection of historical British photographs including many London views.
Tramway Works Cars. A selection of works car pictures, includes a London section.
London County Council Tramways. Official views from the original London County Council Tramways records, shown with kind permission of the London Metropolitan Archives.
London Models from Frank E. Wilson, the pioneer of large scale working tram models.
The data sheets below (PDF format) were created by London expert Eddie Dawes in collaboration with the late Colin Withey. They give useful facts on the history of London's Tramways.
London Tramway History Timeline year by year.
The History of Routes by route number.
Sheets also exist with the detailed history of individual tramcars for LT, LCC, LUT, MET, SMET and the local councils. These are available on request.
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