Leeds City Tramways and Transport Department : tramway, trolley bus & omnibus map and timetables, May 1927

            A folded paper sheet with the details of Leeds City Tramways services dated May 1927 and issued under the name of W Chamberlain, general manager. I've had to split the images of the sheet into two - west and east.

By 1927 the nascient motor bus, or omnibus, services were starting to assume a growing importance in cities such as Leeds both as 'feeder routes' to areas where the capital expense of extending tram services were seen as prohibitive as well as being increasingly of utility in their own right. The 'flexibility' over the rail bound tram was seen as a distinct benefit as buses became larger and more reliable. This would be played out in Leeds over the next decade as although some bold tramway expansion plans, allied to the city's housing developments in the south and east of the city, were carried out others were not and this set the scene for the 'triumph' of the diesel bus in the 1950s when the city's acclaimed tram system was abandoned. Oh how one now wishes Leeds was like other European cities that had kept them.

In the meantime, such are the intense nature of the tram services all they require are relatively brief details of start and finish times. For the buses, including 'specials' individual timetables are shown.

There's lot to see on the map sheets but the west sheet has one of particular interest. Leeds was a 'pioneer', along with neighbouring Bradford, in that they introduced trolleybuses in 1911. The original route (to Wortley and Farnley) already appears on this sheet to have been replaced by motor buses but the 1915 'feeder' from the terminus of the long Guiseley route that ran to Burley in Wharfedale and Otley had another year to run before they too were abandoned. These routes, and the 'proposed' Baildon extension were replaced by buses from other operators and so Leeds would no longer be able to advertise 'cheap days out' in the beautiful countryside of the Wharfe Valley and Otley Chevin.

Otherwise the intensive nature of the tramways in the urban area can be plainly seen along with some of the start of the radial bus routes, along with the various 'weekend' and 'holiday' servcies to serve the city's marvellous parks and green spaces.

Taken on: May 31, 2020

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