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B2-class trams entered service between 1988 and 1994, differing from the B1-class prototypes by not having trolley poles, having dot-matrix destination displays, and non-opening windows. 130 trams were built by Comeng, and later ABB; all of which remain in service today. The B2-class was the first Melbourne tram fitted with air conditioning.
The first genuine attempt to construct a tramway network was the construction of the Richmond cable tram line by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company in 1885. Over the next few years, 16 more cable tram lines were constructed, as well as numerous other horse tramways. [ 2 ]
The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) was a government-owned authority that was responsible for the tram network in Melbourne, Australia between 1919 and 1983, when it was merged into the Metropolitan Transit Authority. It had been formed by the merger of a number of smaller tramway trusts and companies that operated throughout the ...
From 1885 to 1940, the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia operated one of the largest cable systems in the world, at its peak running 592 trams on 75 kilometres (47 mi) of track, though during its heyday, Sydney's network was larger, [20] with about 1,600 cars in service at any one time at its peak during the 1930s (cf. about 500 trams in ...
Engine house and cable winding machinery, Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company, 1898. The MTOC was started by Francis Boardman Clapp, who had come to Australia from the United States in 1853 to search for gold. [1]: 11 In 1869 he set up the Melbourne Omnibus Company which ran horse-drawn omnibuses in the inner suburbs of Melbourne.
M-Tram; Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board; Melbourne Art Trams; Melbourne cable tramway system; Melbourne tram classification; Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company; Melbourne, Brunswick & Coburg Tramways Trust; Metropolitan Transit Authority (Victoria)
The PMTT was formed under the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust Act 1907 to construct and operate electric trams in the municipalities of Prahran and Malvern.The original members of the trust were Alexander Cameron (Chairman), W. O. Strangward (Secretary), H.S. Dix (Manager and Engineer), S. Bangs, William Knox MLC, Walter Lewis and Thomas Luxton.
The design and construction work probably benefited from the knowledge and skills obtained by the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company when building its bridges at Cremorne and Hawthorn in 1860-1. [4] In 1885, the Hawthorn Bridge was the destination of Melbourne's first tram service. [5]