New Zealand - Christchurch - One of the original Christchurch electric trams built in New Jersey, in the United States. A semi-open breezers as it would have been called in its homeland, is seen leaving the Square for the Railway Station in the 1920s in the days when the majority of travel was either by tram or train. #602651 Christchurch tramway system - The Christchurch tramway system was an extensive network in Christchurch, New Zealand, with steam and horse trams from 1882. Electric trams ran from 1905 to 1954, when the last line from Cashmere to Papanui was replaced by buses. A loop track was reopened in the central city in 1995 as a tourist attraction. The track is standard gauge, 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in). - There is now a 2.5-kilometre (1.6 mi) central city loop heritage tram system, opened in February 1995 and running all year round, as well as a 1.4-kilometre (0.87 mi) extension opened in February 2015 and a tram museum at the Ferrymead Heritage Park with operating trams. The extension is part of an additional loop planned and partially constructed during late 2000s, and a new strategy report by Jan Gehl commissioned for Council and published in early 2010 suggested an extension of the tram system (and integration of the trams into the general public transport system) as one of a package of measures aimed at reducing car-dominance in the city. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_tramway_system) A Christchurch Album - It seems unbelievable that 40 years after the last Christchurch electric tram trundled back to the old tram barns in Moorehouse Avenue, trams of that era are once again running in the city streets. - A Christchurch Album is a unique pictorial record by the late W. W. Stewart and his son, Graham Stewart, of this past age when the tram was the life-blood of the city... Author: W. W. Stewart (Illustrator), Graham Stewart (Illustrator) ISBN: 1869340450 Click the link provided at the top to purchase the book through the MAD on New Zealand Shop - Supporting New Zealand Authors and Artists