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Conductors once cried "Tickets Please" in Melbourne, home of the tram! Back in 1855 there were horse-drawn trams, followed by cable-driven trams [1885], then electrified tram network [1906*] + the world's first Tramcar Restaurant in 1983.
* 1889 First Electric Tram Route - Doncaster - Box Hill.
* 1889 First Electric Tram Route - Doncaster - Box Hill.
⊜ Melbourne
Yarra Trams in Melbourne is the world's largest tram network consisting of seven locations: four depots, 206 trams, carrying over 60 million passengers more than 8.9 million kilometres per year....
⊜ Tram Road Box Hill
Australia's first electric tram operated in Melbourne's eastern suburbs between Box Hill and Doncaster. Most people would have thought the first electric tram route would have run down a...
⊜ Ballarat Botanic Gardens Ballarat
The Ballarat Tramway Museum is located in the Ballarat Botanic Gardens, on the west side of Lake Wendouree. The Museum operates a collection of historic trams along a return track of 3.2 kms on...
⊜ 1 Tramways Avenue, Bendigo
Sit back, relax and let the tram do all the talking.... Be delighted by the wide streetscapes and grand architecture of Bendigo as your tram tells you colourful stories about Bendigo's golden past...
⊜ Melbourne
Catching a tram in Melbourne is as simple as deciding where you want to go. If your journey is "within the CBD and Docklands", then it's FREE, simply board (get on) any tram at a designated tram...
⊜ Melbourne
The Melbourne tram decorated Karachi style for the Commonwealth Games will run free on the Melbourne City Circle tram route indefinetly. Vehicles of transport have long been celebrated in the...
⊜ Melbourne
Travel on the City Circle Tram is free, so hop on and off as often as you like. The City Circle Tram service provides a free and convenient way to get around central Melbourne. Tourists, shoppers,...
⊜ Melbourne
Melbourne's tramcar restaurants are no longer operating due to safety concerns. The Colonial Tramcar Restaurant operated from a converted fleet of three vintage W class trams in Melbourne from...
⊜ Melbourne
Some of Melbourne's best day trips are found at the end of the line... All good things must come to an end, as the saying goes, and even Melbourne's much-loved trams run out of track eventually....
⊜ 8 Wallen Road Hawthorn
This iconic building was built for the Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT) and opened in 1916. Located at the junction of Power Street and Wallen Road, Hawthorn, it was designed by architect Leonard...
⊜ Melbourne
Yarra Trams is marking an important milestone in the history of the Melbourne tram network. The year 2006 marks 100 years of continuous operation of electric trams. Australia's First Electric...
⊜ Melbourne
Market Street Railway operates a W2 Class Melbourne tram on its F-Market & Wharves line. Market Street Railway is the nonprofit preservation partner of the San Francisco Municipal Railway, the...
⊜ Melbourne
Melbourne established cable trams in 1885, and the system grew to 75 km of double track and 1200 cars and trailers, the fourth largest cable system in the world. There is some difficulty in...
⊜ 8 Wallen Road Hawthorn
The Melbourne Tram Museum is open on the second and fourth Saturday of every month at Hawthorn Depot. It is home to 21 fully-restored trams including: -:- a 'toast-rack' bodied V-class 1906...
⊜ 8 Wallen Road Hawthorn
The Melbourne Tram Museum is open on the second and fourth Saturday of every month at Hawthorn Depot. It is home to 21 fully-restored trams including: -:- a 'toast-rack' bodied V-class from...
⊜ Melbourne
"Fares Please"might be heard again with much talk about the possibility of conductors returning to work on Melbourne's trams. Tram conductors were custodians of Melbourne's soul, replaced by...
⊜ Elsternwick
Tram People Down Under is a 160 minute three-part video documentary produced in Melbourne now available on DVD. It is a heart-felt homage to our tramway workers and to the quintessential...
⊜ Melbourne
The first cable tram in Victoria operated along Flinders Street to Richmond in 1885. Within five years, trams were ferrying people between the city and inner suburbs along 65 kilometres of tram...
⊜ Southbank
TRAMTACTIC is an organic non-organisation of people who come together with artist Mick Douglas to undertake art projects in the public domain departing from the potential of tramways....
⊜ Melbourne
Now you can find out when your tram is coming - via the phone. tramTRACKER from Yarra Trams provides six ways to get real-time tram information. CHOOSE YOUR TRAMTRACKER iPhone The ultimate in...
⊜ Melbourne
Sadly this was one of the web pages at GeoCities that is no longer available. It showed images taken since the late 1960's. They show on several pages the evolution of trams in Melbourne,...
⊜ Melbourne
Long before electric trams, Melbourne's trams were powered by underground cables powered from 12 power houses. The lengths of the cables varied from 17,000 feet to 30,000 feet weighing up to 35...
⊜ Keysborough
The Tramway Museum Society of Victoria is a voluntary non profit association incorporated under Victorian legislation. Our mission is to ensure the preservation of Victoria's urban tramway...
⊜ Station Street, Fairfield
The first ever horse-pulled tram to run in Victoria was in Station Street, Fairfield. Looking at it today this is quite a surprising thought. There are no tram tracks, and there are no wires...
⊜ Melbourne
The world's BIGGEST & LONGEST SERVING tram network By: Aymeric I J Perfrement, Warren Doubleday, Mal Rowe (Photographer) Tram networks have been in operation since the first horse-drawn...
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