RE: [TramsDownUnder] Best of Melbourne

G'day Mal,

That's one of my favourites too.

On business trips in the 90's, I always stayed at St Georges Motor Inn on route 12 and I did it late at night in a W with a female driver, who absolutely hammered it from the City to the beach.

As there were only a couple of other passengers, there were minimal stops and the return trip was non-stop to the City, with only me on board.

Loved every minute.

Cheers,
Mick in wet and windy Brisbane

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From: tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com <tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Mal Rowe
Sent: Friday, 7 March 2025 3:13 PM
To: tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Best of Melbourne

Nice trip.

I would have tried to include my favourite Melbourne tram ride - route 1 to South Melbourne Beach.

It's one of the few routes that twist and turn through heritage streetscapes.

Mal Rowe, attaching evidence.


On 07/03/2025 15:10, 'Roderick Smith' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
> Two Melbourne friends shared the responsibility for guiding a UK visitor around Melbourne's trams on Tuesday. He was staying in Ferntree Gully.
> Here is how we did it.
> Mr Morning selected south-east, so I chose a complementary coverage for the afternoon.
> Ferntree Gully - Box Hill train.
> - Glenferrie Rd on route 109, C tram.
> - Luna Park on route 16, with stopovers at Kooyong level crossing, Malvern Depot, the grand union.
> - Swanston St on route 96, with a stopover at Southbank.
> - La Trobe St, then walk to Flagstaff, photographing assorted trams.
> Afternoon with me:
> - Route 58 to Union Square with stopovers in Royal Park and at the zoo stop.
> - late lunch break at an authentic Greek fish & chip shop, then back to the zoo stop.
> - train to Moreland station to photograph the new, remains of the old and the tram depot.
> - route 19 to La Trobe St, with a stopover in Royal Pde to photograph one of Melbourne's grand boulevards.
> - long wait, then the last city circle W of the day to Flinders St at Russell St.
> - long wait for a route 70, which was a packed A and we couldn't board. We should have taken a preceding 75 to Camberwell Depot, but got the next 70 (a B) to Riversdale to photograph the tram-train crossing.
> - train to Burwood, then route 75 (a B) to Burvale Hotel for dinner.
> - split: 732 bus to Ferntree Gully / Springvale Rd bus to Nunawading and train home.
> AFAIK all classes except an A were experienced. One subsidiary aim was to cover a variety of streetscapes from the 1870s through plush red-brick 1920s and 30s to 1970/80s.
>
> Roderick Smith
>
>

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