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Detailed history of public transportation in and around Rotherham through 1914 beginning with stage coaches, narrow gauge industrial railways, and moving on to standard gauge railways, tramways, trolleys and buses. These include the Sheffield & Rotherham Railway, the Mexborough & Swinton tramways, the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, and the North Midland Railway, and the Sheffield and Rotherham tramways. With photos, maps, drawings, detailed descriptions with diagrams of locomotives, gradient charts, timetables and ephemera. 216 pages.