CHARLEROI'S TRAMS SINCE 1940: 'COAL, STEEL AND CORNFIELDS'
Written by Geoffrey Skelsey, Yves-Laurent Hansart
Published by Light Rail Transit Association
in 2013
ISBN: 9780948106453
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- TRANSPORT GENERAL
- TRAMS
- HISTORY
- BELGIUM
CHARLEROI'S TRAMS SINCE 1940: 'COAL, STEEL AND CORNFIELDS'
Written by Geoffrey Skelsey, Yves-Laurent Hansart.
Stock no. 1828656
1st.
2013.
Softcover.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition.
The Belgian industrial town of Charleroi was served by two of Europe's most characterful tramsways. Traditional two-axle trams still ran in the 1970s and then became part of the local network of the celebrated Vicinal, extended in 2012. This wide-ranging book explores the colourful history of the two tramways since 1940, with insight into the political and economic problems which lay behind their decline and partial revival. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. Large, fold-out map to rear. 112 pages. ISBN: 9780948106453. A lovely copy, no significant faults.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction background and scope of the book
- 2. The 'Pays Noir' and its development: the economic background
- 3. Wartime and After
- 4. 'Hero to Zero': Vicinal 1945 to 1993
- 5. The TEPCE system after the war
- 6. 'The MLC'
- 7. Rolling Stock
- 8. Towards today's network: 1996 and after
- 9. Visiting Charleroi
- 10. Acknowledgements and Bibliography
- Appendices
- List of Maps