The calm of this image masks the somewhat chaotic nature of the tram service operated in Barrow during World War One. The owners, the British Electric Traction Company, faced a combination of problems: a hugely increased population, particularly munition workers at the shipyard trying to use a little improved pre-war system; increased shift working, and complicated tram routes, some of which passed over lifting-bridges and level-crossings.
Postlethwaite, H., Transport in Barrow-in-Furness, (Glossop, Venture Publications, 2013)
Cormack, I. L., Seventy-five Years on Wheels – The History of Public Transport in Barrow-in-Furness 1885-1960, (Cambuslang, Scottish Tramways Society Publications, 1960)