Re: [TramsDownUnder] Getting back to trams (again)

Sometimes at Port Melbourne late 1980s at night I would switch off all the tram lights and outside you could see the foxes wandering around. Sometimes they even came onto the tram stop platform looking for any discarded food scraps. 

As Andrew said, the former railway yards were just abandoned land with small scrubby growth.

Richard

On 9 Apr 2025, at 9:02 pm, Andrew Highriser <andrewhighriser1@gmail.com> wrote:



Very nice. I remember traveling on the 109 tram to Port Melbourne when it first opened, and it felt very country then, as it brushed past long grass along the trackside and terminated in what seemed to be nowhere. 

Andrew. 

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 at 11:06, Mal Rowe <mal.rowe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 09/04/2025 10:08, Geoffrey Hansen wrote:
> To be honest I love the sight of a tram running in the countryside.
>
... and in early days of electric tram expansion they sometimes did.

First attached pic is from the collection of Len Millar and shows what
the West Preston line looked like when built.

Second pic is from the collection of Melbourne Tram Museum and shows
what the tramway to Essendon Aerodrome looked when built in 1942.  It is
from the camera of Peter Duckett.

Mal Rowe noting the cattle grid under construction in the foreground of
the 'drome pic- to keep wandering stock off the tramway.

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