ABERDEEN BY TRAM
By E N C Haywood. Stenlake Publishing Limited, s/b, 48 pages, 9.5x 7in, £12.95 ISBN 978-1-84033-969-7, tel. 01290 551122, www.stenlake.co.uk
If you want a ticket to ride the former Aberdeen tram system, then this book by the late railway and tramway photographer E N C Haywood captures the atmosphere of one of Britain’s classic first-generation tramway systems. We meet its well-maintained, green-and-cream trams, photographed against the streets of their day, with vintage vehicles galore, shops with canopies and the Granite City’s central area pavements thronged with shoppers. There are trams galore, too, out in the suburbs and beside the sea at the city’s Sea Beach terminus.
Catching the eye are the streamliners on the busy Bridge of Don to Bridge of Dee route, and it’s a sobering…
