{"id":61030,"date":"2025-11-25T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61030"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:35:37","slug":"life-as-a-leeds-tram-conductor-book-now-available-for-pre-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61030","title":{"rendered":"Life as a Leeds tram conductor book now available for pre-orders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall earlier this year we ran a news story on the planned release of a new tram book by well-known tram enthusiast, Chris Thornburn. Based on his life as a Leeds tram conductor, \u201cOn Top o\u2019t\u2019 Job\u201d is about to go to print and pre-orders are now being accepted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The publisher provides the following information:<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that Chris Thornburn&#8217;s new book, &#8220;On Top o&#8217;t&#8217; Job&#8221;, about his life as a conductor on the Leeds City tram system in the 1950s, is now available to pre-order from the Memories of Motion website.<\/p>\n<p>The book is priced at \u00a335.00 plus \u00a35.00 P&amp;P. (Note that P&amp;P increases to\u00a0\u00a38.25 for multiple copies)<\/p>\n<p>Information about the book and to pre-order can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.memoriesofmotion.co.uk\/products\/on-top-ot-job-chris-thornburn\">https:\/\/shop.memoriesofmotion.co.uk\/products\/on-top-ot-job-chris-thornburn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions then please email the publisher at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:info@memoriesofmotion.co.uk\">info@memoriesofmotion.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall earlier this year we ran a news story on the planned release of a new tram book by well-known tram enthusiast, Chris Thornburn. Based on his life as a Leeds tram conductor, \u201cOn Top o\u2019t\u2019 Job\u201d is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61030\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61031,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61030\/revisions\/61031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}