Juggernaut: A Story of Sydney in the Wild Days of the Steam Trams (AANS-017)

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Product No.:AANS-017Title: Juggernaut: A Story of Sydney in the Wild Days of the Steam TramsAuthor(s): Burke, DavidIllustrator(s): N/APublisher: Kangaroo PressISBN: 0864179022Condition: NewBinding: HardcoverDust Jacket:NewEdition:1st EditionPublication Year:1997Features: 152 Pages with Colour and Black/White Illustrations.Sydney once operated, reputedly, the world’s largest steam tram network. Beginning with a temporary line to the International Exhibition of 1879, the system rapidly spread into the far corners of the city. Today’s long-established suburbs such as Coogee, Bondi Beach, Dulwich Hill, Leichhardt and Rozelle took shape along the tracks of those quaint little hissing, whistling Yankee “steam motors” hauling ungainly double-deck cars.At the turn of the century steam trams were making 1200 daily journeys through the City and carrying some 70 million passengers each year. More than just a convenient means of transport, the ‘Juggernauts’ and ‘Manglers’ became an indispensable part of the city’s social fabric: a bloody accident rate, the nefarious deeds of larrikin conductors, wolf-whistling drivers and the Bondi tram that ‘shot through’ were all daily incidents, the growing up of a great city.