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English historian
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Male
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Birth:
1935(Walsall, United Kingdom)
Death:
2002
The details
Biography
John Stanley Webb (11 January 1920 – 22 January 2002) was an English transport historian.
Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, Webb developed an interest in trains started as a child, as he traveled by rail to school. He wrote many books on British trams and tramway systems, and those in other countries, while working for his family's firm, James Webb and Sons, of Bloxwich, which he joined in 1935 and from which he retired as Managing Director in 1986.
Midland Metro T-69 tram number 10 was named in his honour in a ceremony at Snow Hill station, Birmingham, on 17 July 2004.