[TramsDownUnder] Best of Melbourne

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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