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In 1997, the tram network was split into two and later privatized. Since 2004, Yarra Trams has been the sole operator of the Melbourne Tram Network. [7] This timeline lists all of the openings, extensions and closures of all lines, as well as other significant events of the Melbourne Tram Network.
Melbourne's first cable tram service on 11 November 1885. The first cable tram line opened on 11 November 1885, running from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge, along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, with the last line opening on 27 October 1891. At its height the cable system was one of the largest in the world ...
The Lichterfelde tram in Berlin, 1882 Volks Electric Railway, built in 1883, is still in operation First type of Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tramcars, powered by bipolar overhead line, 1883 Fully restored 1920 Toronto streetcar A Double-decker tram in Blackpool A Box Hill to Doncaster tram in Melbourne, 1890s
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.
The Tramway Heritage Centre has a tramway electric supply substation, two running sheds, an exhibition shed/workshop - that was used as part of the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880, various buildings for the storage of un-restored trams, cable tram cars, motor vehicles and a visitors centre. Malcolm Tram from the movie "Malcolm"
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 ...
See then-and-now photos of 1930s building. Jeff Kleinman. July 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM. Julia & Henry’s, a new food hall in downtown Miami, fills a building with a lot of history.
A Sydney Light Rail Urbos 3 tram A modern low-floor E class tram, as used on the Melbourne network. The earliest trams in Australia operated in the latter decades of the 19th century, hauled by horses or "steam tram motors" (also known as "steam dummies"). At the turn of the 20th century, propulsion almost universally turned to electrification ...