The tramways were the final links attaching Camberwell to the vast, haphazard, intricate structure of London's communications. The whole system worked like some self-regulating clearing house which permitted an almost infinite variety of journeys. It was a system nevertheless whose latent capacity for mass travel was in the 1870s still far greater than its actual contribution to it.
H.J. Dyos, Victorian Suburb: a study of the growth of Camberwell (1961), 75
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