A Rounday Electric tram, the first overhead electric trams to run in the UK.
Welcome to the website for the Leeds Transport Historical Society.
The Leeds Transport Historical Society (or LTHS) is an enthusiast body that has supported the procurement and restoration of three former Leeds tramcars at the National Tramway Museum. Since being set up in 1956, the organisation has acquired and supported the restoration of three tramcars – which are now fully operational – and also owns a horse tram which is presently being restored to working order. It has also published five volumes of ‘Leeds Transport’, written by Jim Soper, covering the history of Leed’s transport up to 1986. It has also recently started organising occaisional wrking parties to support the national Tramway Museum at Crich. (See this link)
Is it possible to obtain a copy of Leeds Trams in DVD format?
Thanks for your help.
Hi Kay
Yes we do stock the DVD but I haven’t yet got that side of the website up and running. The price is £19.95 plus P & P but if you live in Leeds we could deliver it. If you let me know your address I’ll sort a price out and let you know then we can sort out payment.
Jamie Guest
Secretary LTHS
I am planning to model a short section of Leeds trams on my model railway.I am a Loiner who lives in Norfolk so I rarely get to Leeds which would make my research easier but what i really need to know is just what all the overhead lines and various connectors look like and where they go.I have a collection of Sommerfeldt catenary bits and would like to use them.I have a couple of books on Leeds trams but the wiring is usually barely visible.Is there a publication I could buy that would show exactly what to do?Many thanks for your help…Martyn Coope.
Hi Martyn
The only book that would answer your questions in full is the large 5 volume set of Leeds Transport by J Soper which is available through the Society. However there is a group called the TLRS (I thik it stands for the Tramway and Light Railway Society) who are the fount of most knowledge about trmaway modelling and hold several shows of trma models during the year. It would also be worth you going to the East Anglian Tramway Museum as they have working full size overhead, I think they are newar Lowestoft but they can be found on the web. Otherwise a visit to the Tramway Museum at Crich would be worthwhile. I hope that this is if some use.
Jamie Guest.
At the Dewsbury Bus Museum open day in March 2012 I purchased from your stall five photographs of Huddersfield trolleybuses. The young man on the stall said that these had come from the collection of Roy Brooks, the noted writer and historian of Huddeersfield trams and trolleybuses. He also said that the LTHS had been given a large box of colour slides of Huddersfield trolleybuses taken by Roy Brook but they had not been catalogued.
Two questions:
Are any of these colour slides going to be made into prints for purchase?
Do you require assistance in cataloguing the slides?
Graham Crawshaw