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Leicester's Trams and Buses - 20th Century Landmarks (Hardcover)
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Leicester's Trams and Buses - 20th Century Landmarks (Hardcover)
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In 1904, when Leicester Corporation opened its state-of-the-art
electric tram network, it enjoyed a monopoly on routes and
convenient central terminal points. But soon the first small
independent motor bus companies became active, and by 1921, Midland
Red - shortly to be the largest operator in England outside London
- was busily establishing itself. The city fathers were faced with
a quandary; protecting their territory and services, and possibly
extending them, albeit in the face of determined competition,
whilst at the same time endeavouring to provide termini that were
as invitingly close to the city centre as possible. In this they
were assisted by the 1930 Transport Act, which provided the
template for fifty years of fairly peaceful co-existence between
Leicester City Transport and Midland Red. That is until the
provisions of a new Act in 1980 set them at loggerheads again.
Leicester's Trams and Buses - 20th Century Landmarks examines in
detail the background behind five key events - the opening of the
electric tram network in 1904 and its closure in 1949; the arrival
of Midland Red in Leicester in 1921, via the protracted planning
for Leicester's first proper bus station, to the so-called bus wars
in the deregulation and privatisation era of the 1980s. It
concludes that it was the pursuit of policies, at local and
national government levels, which ultimately led to opportunities
being missed that could have provided Leicester city and county
with a fully integrated modern-day network.
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