Postcard: London tram line 34 with bilevel rail car 1395 on Gresham Road, Brixton (1950)
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Photographer: W. E. Robertson.
Publisher: Mumbles Railway.
Date: 1950.
City: London (United Kingdom).
The picture shows
London Transport Executive (LTE)
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London tram line 34: Chelsea - Blackfriars
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London bilevel rail car 1395, signed Blackfriars via Camberwell.
Description
London trams picked up electric current in two different ways: from a live wire overhead, or from live rails beneath the road.
Was a point at which they changed from one system to the other. No. 1395 is seen leaving on overhead, after its 'plough' - the pich-up device which ran in a slot between the rails - had been detached here.
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