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A

A4 London Road
A36 road
Abuse of tram tracks by motorists
Abuse of tram tracks by motorists in Croydon
Acceleration
Access - to city centre
Access - general ease of, on trams
Access - by passengers
Accessibility - for disabled people
Acid rain
Addresses - 'Trams for Bath' committee members
Addresses - specialists
Adelaide - Guided buses
Advantages of trams
Advertising - pros and cons
Advertising on trams
Alarms on trams
Alice Park
Allen - Professor Geoff
Alternative fuels
Alternatives to trams
Ambury
Appearance of overhead wiring - pictures of good and bad practice
Appearance of overhead wiring - discussion
Appearance of poles and wires in city centre
Appearance of vehicles
Avon Valley Railway - Link to
AvonValley Railway - Map of proposal
Avon Valley Railway - overhead wires
Avon Valley Railway - Website

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B

Bank loans - funding
Bath Rotal Literary and Scientific Institute building - tram negotiating corner of
BRLSI - Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Bathampton route
Bath and N.E. Somerset, Local Transport Plan - TfB Report
Bath, a World Heritage City - damage to
Bath Spa Station
Bath Electric Tramways - map
Bath Stone - damaged by pollution
Bath tram - single decker (picture)
Bath tram - double decker (picture)
Batheaston route
Bathford
Bathwick Hill
Bathwick Street
Battery powered vehicles
Battery hybrid vehicles
BDOR consultation on W Riverside
Bear Flat
Bellotts Road
Bicycles in trams
Bicycles lifts in Trondheim
Bicycle wheels - catching in tram track
Bi-directional trams
Blockages - dealing with
Bogies
'Bog Island'
'Bog Island' Artist's impression of modern tram (picture)
Bonds - Local Authority - funding by
Bonds - Electrical rail
'Boneshakers' - 4-wheel trams
Book references
Bow collectors
Bradford Road, Combe Down
Braking
Braking - sand - use of
Brakes - frictional
Brakes - magnetic
Brakes - regenerative
Bridge Road - Oldfield Park
Bridge Street - City centre circle
Bridges - at Churchill Bridge
Bridges - at Sainsburys
Bridges - at North Parade
Bristol - future extensions to
Bristol -Local Transport Plan for 2000
Bristol - track gauge
Bristol Tramway
Bristol Tramway talk by Bob Fowler
British Standards - rails
British Standards - wires
Broad Street - Lansdown route
Broad Street - gradient
Brougham Hayes - Oldfield Park route
Buildings - effects of traffic fumes
Built heritage - appearance of overhead wires
'Bus Gates'
Bus Lanes
Buses and other vehicles electrically powered
Buses - cost comparison with trams
Buses - sustainability comparison with trams
Buses - Guided on busway
Buses - hybrid powered
Buses - how they differ from trams
Bus Quality Partnership
Bus services - changes when trams introduced
Bus station
Bus station - removal from Southgate
Busways
Busway - unsuitable for W. Riverside route
Business funding

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C

Cafes - continental, adjacent to tram tracks
Calendar
Capacitors - energy storage on trams
Capital costs
Capital costs - sources of funding
Carrying capacity of tram
Car - electric battery powered
Catchment areas
Catchment areas - augmenting "Rapid Transit" proposal
Catalytic action - accelerating damage to stonework
Central positioning of tram tracks
Charles St - Weston/Newbridge route
Charles St - Twerton route
Chelsea Road
Churchill Bridge
Cinder path - for tramway horses
City centre circle route
City centre circle - planning
City Centre Circle - emergency working
City centre - congestion by busway service
Claverton Down
Clean Air Act
Cleveland Bridge
Coach Park
Combe Down route
Combe Park
Compulsory purchase - of tramway
Committee - 'Trams for Bath'
Communications
Commuter - typical journey
Comparisons between modes
Compatibility with Bristol
Conductors
Conductors' wages
Conductors on single-decked trams
Conduit systems
Cone guidance
Congestion - avoidance in city centre
Congestion - avoidance on W. Riverside route
Contact wire
Contacts - road surface
Continuity of track joints
Control room
Corners - negotiation of
Corners - track easement on
Coronation Avenue
Corrosion - electrolytic
Costs - capital
Costs - comparisons between modes
Costs - infrastructure
Costs -installation
Costs - running
Costs - to the environment
Costs - track
Costs - vehicle
Crossings - at tram stops
Crowds - tramway handling ability
Croydon Tramlink - Finance
Current collection
Current collectors - types
Current - power needed on hills
Currents - stray
Curves
Curves - guidance on
Cycle-carrying tram
Cycle lift
Cycles - ease of access on tram
Cycling safety
Cynthia Road

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Damage to buildings by traffic fumes
Dates for your diary
Deliveries - avoiding obstruction of
Demand curves
Depôt - reduction of site area needed
Depôt - costs
Depôt - general requirements
Depôt - Possible site
Depôt shunter
Diary dates
Diesel fumes
Disabled access
Disabled access - pictures
Disabled - reaching alarm panels
Dishonesty - Use of misleading descriptions
Disruption - recovering from
Distances - track
Distribution system - power - costs
Diversion of services - avoiding cost of
Diversion of services - discussion
Dolter surface contact system
Doors - loading and unloading
Dorchester Street - City centre circle
Dorchester Street - Oldfield Park route
Dorchester Street - Combe Down route
Double-decked trams
Double-decked tram - Picture of old Bath tram
Double-decked trams -traction on hills
Double-ended trams
Drivers' pay scales
Ducts - rental income
Dudley - Black Country Museum - Tram bogie picture
Dudley - Black Country Museum - overhead wires picture

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Ears
Easement
Economy of scale
Edinburgh - Tramway proposals
Electrical power requirements of a tramway
Electricity costs estimate
Electricity mains - diversion of
Electricity sub-stations
Electricity - supply from depôt
Electricity supply surges - avoidance of
Electric vehicles other than trams
Electrocution - 'accidental' - of horses
Electrolysis - for Hydrogen production
Electrolytic corrosion
Emergency working
Empire Hotel
Englishcombe Lane
Energy - Sources and pathways
Energy - requirements of tram
Energy - saving by regenerative braking
Environment
Environmental advantages of trams - summary
Environmentally friendly energy sources
Environmental Sustainability of trams
Equipment - placement of, on vehicle
'Eric' Sheffield works tram (picture)
Events - forthcoming
Exhaust fumes
Expense
Extensions - proposed future

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Fares
Fares - calculation of
Fare collection by conductor
Finance - general
Finance - other systems
Finance - sources of
Fittings - overhead
Flange guidance
Flywheel - energy storage at power station
Flywheel - trams powered by
Footbridge - use by trams
Forthcoming events
Four-wheel trams - design compromises
Fowler, Bob - talk on Bristol Tramway
Foxhill
Foxhill Development - TfB Report
Frequency of service
Frequency of service calculations
Frogs
Fuel cells - in cars
Fuel cells
Fuel costs
Fumes - traffic
Funding
Funding - bank loans
Funding - by business
Funding - by central government
Funding - by investors
Funding - by Local Authoruty bonds
Funding - by lottery
Fumes - traffic - damaging stonework

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Gas mains - diversion of
Gauge - track - choice of, for Bath
Gauge - track - metre
Gauge - track - standard
Gauge - track - 15 inch
General overview of the proposals for Bath
Generators - electric tramway
Generator - electric tramway (picture)
Geography of Bath - collects pollution
George Inn, Bathford
George Street - Lansdown route
Glasshouse
Glue - use in rail construction
Gradients
Grand Parade - visibility of wiring on
Grand Parade with tram impression (picture)
Grants
Grants - E.E.C.
Grants - local authority
Grants - lottery
Grants - Section 56 of the Transport Act 1968
Grass-cutter tram
Grassed track
Great Pulteney Street
Guided buses

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Halcrow Report
Handrails
Hartland, David - Article on appearance of overhead
Headroom - limited on Oldfield Park route
Heating - track
Height of wires
Herbert Road
Heritage - built - effect of traffic fumes on
Heritage city - appearance of overhead wires
Heritage vehicles - current collecting devices
Heritage vehicles - supply voltage
Heritage tram in Kingsmead Square, impression of (picture)
Hills - climbing by trams
Hills - power needed on
Hills - recovering energy during braking
Hills - wheel traction on
Hilly route - Lansdown
'Hilly Route' trams in London
Hilly routes - track heating
Horses - 'accidental' electrocution of
Hospitals
Hospital journey - typical
Hospitals - shuttle service to
Hospitals - TfB report on transport to
Hybrid powered vehicles
Hydrogen powered vehicles
Hyder Report - The report
Hyder Report - TfB's comments on
Hydrogen

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Ice - track heating
Income - additional sources of
Insulators - section (old)
Insulators - section (new)
Infrastructure costs
Information systems
Interchange - city centre
Integrated transport
Interior of modern tram
Investors - funding by
'Island' tram stops

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James St West - Weston/Newbridge route
James St West - Twerton route
Jerk factor
Joints - welded track
Journeys - typical
Junction Road

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King Georges Road
Kingsmead Square - City Centre Circle route
Kingsmead Square - Weston/Newbridge route
Kingsmead Square - Twerton route
Kingsmead Square, impression of heritage tram (picture)

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Lambridge
Lansdown route
Lansdown View
Larkhall
Lead - pollution from batteries
Leakage currents - grassed track
Length - track
Lesley, Prof. Lewis - LR55 rail
Level access
Light Rail Transit
Light Rapid Transit
L.R.T. link with Bristol
Lighting - vehicle - security of supply
Loading on road
Loading - maximum passenger
Loans - bank - funding by
Local Authority bonds - funding by
Local Authority - compulsory purchase of tramway
Local Transport Plan - TfB Report
Local Transport Plan - B&NES 2000
Local Transport Plan - Bristol 2000
Local Transport Plan - Links between Bath and Bristol
Locksbrook Road - nearest route
London - conduit system
London Road
Loop tracks - avoidance of
Lorain surface contact system
Lottery - funding by
Low bridge - on Oldfield Park route
Low bridge - need for single deck trams
Lower Bristol Road - Twerton route
Lower Bristol Road - part avoided by Oldfield Park route
Lower Bristol Road - part avoided at Churchill Bridge
Lower Oldfield Park - low bridge
Low floor trams
Low floor - advantages of
Low floor - limitations of
Low floor - pictures
Low voltage stud contact systems
LRT
LR55 rail
Lungs - damage to

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Magnetic track brakes
Magnetic brake (picture)
Maintenance vehicles
Manchester - fares
Manchester - Finance
Manvers Street
Maps
Mastic - decorative road surface
Mastic - use in rail construction
Maximum Traction trucks
Membership - 'Trams for Bath'
Midford Road
Midlands Metro - Finance
Midlands Metro (picture)
Midland Railway alignment
Midsomer Norton
Mileages - track
Milk float
Millmead Road - nearest route
Modal change - reasons for
Modal change - estimate of
Modes - Comparing costs
Mobility - ease of tram access
Mount Road - Southdown
Moorland Road
Motorists - abuse of tram tracks by
Motors - tramway - power requirements
Motors - wheels driven by
Multiple - running trams in
Multi-purpose works vehicle
Museum, Holbourne of Menstrie

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Netherlands - cycle-carrying trams
Newbridge route
Newbridge route planning
Newbridge Park + Ride
Newbridge - shuttle service to Hospitals
Newton Road
Newton St Loe
Nitrogen oxides - catalytic action
Noise - siting of repair shop
Noise reduction by track design
Noise reduction by wheel design
Northgate Street - City centre circle
Northgate Street - Batheaston route
Northgate Street - Lansdown route
North Parade - Bathampton route
North Parade - University route
North Wilts - commuting from

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O

Odd Down
Offices
Oldfield Park route
Old tram system - map
Open topped trams - bits falling on passengers
Orange Grove
Orange Grove / Grand Parade with tram impression (picture)
Other systems - Finance
Overhead wiring - ears
Overhead wiring - height
Overhead wiring - pictures of good and bad practice
Overhead wiring - Article by David Hartland
Overhead wiring - how visible would it be?
Overhead wiring - minimising visual impact
Overhead wiring - Comments by Royal Fine Art Commission
Overhead wiring - voltage
Overhead wiring - voltage calculations
Overhead wiring - current collection from
Overview of the proposals for Bath

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P.M.10s - diesel particulates
Pantograph
Pantograph systems
Parade Gardens - visibility of wiring from
Paragon - Lansdown route
Paris - shallow conduit system
Park + Ride - Batheaston
Park + Ride - Lansdown
Park + Ride - Newbridge
Park + Ride - Odd Down
Park + Ride - University
Park + Ride journey - typical
Pay scales
Passengers - maximum number on tram
Passenger Information displays
Permanent way storage yard

Pictures:
• Picture Gallery - Trams and tramways
• Advertisements on Croydon trams
• Artist's impression of a modern tram
• Bath tram - single decker
• Bath tram - double decker
• Dudley - Black Country Museum - Tram bogie
• Dudley - Black Country Museum - overhead wires
• Grand Parade with tram impression
• Guided busway - Adelaide
• 'Eric' Sheffield works tram
• Kingsmead Square, impression of heritage tram
• Low floor trams - Midlands Metro
• Magnetic brake on Midlands Metro tram
• Midlands Metro tram at Monmore Green, West Midlands
• Midlands Metro tram - Interior view
• Multi-purpose works vehicles on Midlands metro
• Overhead wiring - Sheffield
• Overhead wiring - Wolverhampton
• Sheffield tram on 1:10 gradient
• Tram stop in suburban road - Sheffield
• Tramway generator
• Wishbone bridge - Wolverhampton
• Tram terminus - Wolverhampton
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Pierrepont Street
Plate tramways - historic
'Plough' power pick-up device
Points and crossings - use of brakes on
Poles - decorative
Poles - design of
Poles - picture of - Midlands Metro

Pollution
Pollution - damage to stonework
Pollution levels in Bath
Polyurethane mastic - use in rail construction
Portsmouth Harbour - cycle traffic
Positioning of tracks and stops
Power calculations for tram motors
Power supply - Depôt
Power to weight ratio
Power distribution costs
Power supplies
Preferences in public transport
Priority Access points - 'Bus Gates'
Priority measures
Priority - typical arrangement at junctions
Proposals for Bath
Pulteney Road
Pulteney Street
Pushchairs - access
Pushchairs - picture
Pushchairs - interior space for

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Q

Quality Partnership - Bus
Quick overview
Questions - frequently asked

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R

Radial routes - interchange between
Rail - LR55
Rail bonds
Rail guidance
Railway Inn - Wells Road
Railway station
Rain - acid
Rainbow Wood
Radstock
Rapid Transit - Talk by Brian Lomas
Rapid Transit - Linking Bath and Bristolk
Reasons for catching a tram
Recycling tramway materials
Red Lion roundabout
Regenerative braking
Reliability of services
Renewable energy sources
Repair shop - requirements
Repair vehicles
Replica vehicles - supply voltage
Reports by 'Trams for Bath'
Reliability
Reserved track
Resilient rail
Resilient wheels
Resistance - Electrical of track
Resistance - Electrical of bonds
Revenue calculations
Reversing a tram
Ride quality - optimising
Ring Road - difficulty of construction
Road/rail works vehicle
Road traffic - Segregation from
Road works - diversion of services
Route lengths
Routes - general overview
Routes - list
Routes - proposed
Routes - planning in city centre
Royal Fine Art Commission - Tramway design
Royal United Hospital - TfB report on transport to
Rumbling noises - minimising by track design
Rumbling noises - minimising by wheel design
Running costs

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S

Safety - during road works
Safety - at stopping places
Safety - cyclists on tram tracks
Sainsbury's - Weston/Newbridge route
Sainsbury's - Twerton route
St James's Parade
St Mary's Church, Bathwick - Bathampton route
St Mary's Church, Bathwick - University route
Sand - use in braking
Sawclose
Scanning Electron Micrograph of pollution damage
Seating capacity
Seating/standing space
Section insulators (old)
Section insulators (new)
'Section 56'
'Section 56' - implementation
Segregation
Select Committee - Government report on Light Rail
Services - diversion of
Services - frequency of
Services - calculations
Services - reliability of
Sets - Road surface
Sheffield - fares
Sheffield - Finance
Sheffield - overhead wiring (picture)
Shefield tram on 1:10 gradient (picture)
Sheffield -Tram stop in suburban road (picture)
'Sheffield works tram picture
Shopping - city centre
Shopping trip - typical
Shopping trollies - access
Short working
Shunter - depot
Shuttle service - in emergency
Shuttle service to Hospitals
Signalling system - costs
Signals - tramway
Single-decked trams
Single-decked trams in Lower Oldfield Park
Single-decked tram - Picture of old Bath tram
Single-ended trams
Size of vehicles
Skidding - reduced by track heating
Sleepers - necessity for
Snowplough tram
Solar power
Somerset and Dorset Railway
Somerset and Dorset Railway - re-use as tramway
Somerset Street
Southdown
Southgate - City centre circle
Southgate - Oldfield Park route
Southgate Development - TfB Report
Southgate - sheltered interchange
Specification of vehicles
Speed limits - automatic
Speed of service
Speed of vehicles
Spirals - track curves
Sponsorship
Springing - compromise in 4-wheel trams
Stadium - handling crowds
Standing passengers
Standing passengers - Picture of space allocated
Station - railway
Station - bus
Statutory undertakings
Steam - economy of, in tramway power stations
Steam locomotives - sharing track with
Steep hills
Stigma -lack of
Stonework - damage to
Stops - arrangement in city centre
Stops - arrangement in wide and narrow streets
Stops - influence of vehicle door arrangements
Stops - low floor access
Stray electrical currents
Street-running track
Stud Contact systems
Students - typical journey
Sub-stations
Sulphur compounds - damage to buildings by
Sulphur - shown up by Electron Micrograph
Superelevation
Supplies - power - dual-voltage
Supply and demand curves
Surface Contact systems
Surface track - temporary
Suspension ears
Sustainability
Sustainable energy sources
Sustainability of trams
Sustainability - definitions
Swaying - tendency of 4-wheel trams
Swept path - marking of
Sydney Place
System layout

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Telephone cables (underground) - diversion of
Telephonic rail bond tester
Temporary track
Terrace Walk
Terrace Walk Artist's impression of modern tram
Theatre Royal
'Thermit' rail welding
Through-services to Bristol
Ticket - checking by conductor
Tickets - for typical journeys
Timetable
Tourism - heritage trams
Track
Track brakes - magnetic
Track costs
Track gauge - compatibility with Bristol
Track gauge - metre
Track gauge - 15 inch
Track heating
Track length
Track life
Track - temporary diversion
Track - types of
Track - B.S. data
Track - advantages of using
Track - repair & recycling
Traction
Trailers
Traffic fumes
Traffic fumes - stonework damage
Traffic islands - tram stops at
Traffic - avoidance on W. Riverside route
Traffic - reduction by tram priority measures
Traffic regulation at tram stops
Traffic signals - additional at Churchill Bridge
Traffic signals - additional at Bellotts Road
Traffic signals - for trams
Tram ..... (look under second word)
'TRAM' - Pullman TPL
'Tramlines' - magazine
Tramways Act of 1870
'Trams for Bath' committee
'Trams for Bath' committee minutes
'Trams for Bath' group
'Trams for Bath' events
'Trams for Bath' membership
Travel sickness - preventing the causes
Trucks
Transport Act 1986 - Section 56
Tripping - reduced risk of
'Trolley' - derivation
Trolley pole
Trolley pole systems
Trolleybuses
'Turning' a service
Twerton route
Tyres

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U

Ultra Light Rail
Under-street conduit
University route
Upper Borough Walls
Upper Bristol Road
Upper Weston
Urchins - street - detecting live contacts
Users - why they prefer trams

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Vandals - on upper decks
Vehicles - appearance
Vehicles - costs
Repair and recycling
Vehicles - specification
Vehicles - weight
Viability of system
Vibration - protecting underground services from
Victoria Park - nearest route
Visibility of wires and poles
Visitor - Hospital - typical journey
Voltage of overhead supply

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W

Waiting times for service
Walcot Street
Walking distances
Waste materials - recycling
Waste Transfer DepôttV30.htm#SITE
Water mains - diversion of
Wave power
Weight of vehicles
Welding of rails
Wells Road
Wells Road - part avoided at Churchill Bridge
Wellsway
Wellsway - grassed track
Welton
Western Riverside Development
Western Riverside Development - TfB Reports
Western Riverside - Linking to Bristol
Western Riverside - Route planning
Western Riverside - Twerton route
Western Riverside - Weston/Newbridge route
Westgate Buildings
West Midlands tram picture
Westmoreland Station RoadtV30.htm#SITE
Weston (upper) route
What's on?
Whiteway
Wheelbase
Wheelspin - avoiding
Wheels - arrangements on trams
Wheel - tram - construction of
Wheels - bicycle - caught in tram tracks
Wind power
Wind resistance
Windsor Bridge Road - Twerton route
Windsor Bridge Road - Weston/Newbridge route
Wire tables
Wiring - overhead - height
Wiring - overhead - minimising visual impact
Wiring - overhead - pictures of good and bad practice
Wiring - overhead - how visible would it be?
Wiring - overhead - why use it?
Wolverhampton - cycle lock-ups
Wolverhampton - overhead wiring (picture)
Wolverhampton - Finance
Wolverhampton - Wishbone bridge (picture)
Wolverhampton - Tram terminus (picture)
Wolverhampton - Tram fares
'World Heritage City' - damage to
Works vehicles
Works vehicles - multi-purpose, on Midlands metro (picture)
Works tram, Sheffield (picture)

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