Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport tram and bus map, 1950/1

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Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport tram and bus map, 1950/1
Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport tram and bus map, 1950/1

A rather nicely produced small version of the city's transport map reproduced in a 1951 guidebook and showing the extent of the highly regarded municipal transport system that served the City of Liverpool and neighbouring authorities. That said it doesn't show railways. Liverpool had, unusually, invested in its tram system during the suburban expansion of the 1930s, building and reconstructing many miles of reserved tram tracks. Sadly, as the note on this map states, the decision to scrap the tramways had effectively been made and within 6 years of this map all would have gone. Sad, as even with the welcome development of central area heavy rail in the city (allowing for the 1956 loss of the 'Overhead") suburban Liverpool now has a poor quality bus network, the cumulative outcome of decades of UK 'policy' on public transport as well as the city's own struggles.

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