Once the largest tramway network in the British Isles, the tramways had belonged to a range of operators until the London Passenger Transport Board was created in July 1933. This resulted in a great variety of tramcars operated in the Metropolis. This is one of four volumes to cover London; the routes to the northeast, were the result of network developments by a number of local authorities and converted to trolleybus operation leading up to 1940.Locations featured include: 

• Algate  
• Bow
• Barking
• Barkingside
• Beckham
• Canning Town
• Chadwell Heath 
• Chingford Mount 
• Dalston 
• East Ham
• Edmonton
• Enfield
• Ferry Lane 
• Hackney 
• Higham Hill
• Ilford
• Leyton 
• Liverpool Street
• London Docks 
• Plaistow
• Ponders End
• Poplar 
• Royal Albert Docks
• Stamford Hill
• Shoreditch 
• Stepney 
• Victoria & Albert Docks
• Waltham Cross
• Wanstead Park
• West Ham
• West India Docks 
• Whitechapel 
• Whipps Cross
• Woodford

Books in the Lost Tramways of England series:

• Birmingham North
• Birmingham South
• Bradford
• Brighton
• Bristol
• Coventry
• Leeds West
• Leeds East 
• Nottingham
• Southampton
• London North East
• London North West
• London South East
• London South West
• Bolton, SLT, Wigan and St Helens
• Manchester North and Salford
• Manchester South

Peter Waller's first book British and Irish Tramway Systems since 1945, was published in 1992 and since then he has written extensively on transport subjects. He is now a full-time author and editor as well as being a director and secretary of the Online Transport Archive.