Re: Re: A puzzle for you ?
  Dean Filgate

Correct on all accounts Brian - and just when I thought that I had finally
come-up with one that would keep everyone guessing for a few days !

One of the clues that was intended to be offered was that the statement
about this being the last piece of cable track constructed is technically
wrong !
Initially, both the of lines in Lonsdale Street (that from Russell Street
AND that from Elizabeth Street ) turned South into Swanston Street; with
the electrification of Swanston Street in 1926, the two sections of cable
track in Lonsdale Street were connected to each other directly, and a cable
track-electric track crossing square constructed.
Was this the last piece of cable track constructed ?
Or was the Market Street-Flinders Street crossing square involve
reconstructing that particular section of cable tramway ?

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On 24 May 2017 at 21:54,brian_weedon@... [TramsDownUnder] < TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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>

> Dean,

>

> I can think of two technical differences. First, the track centres were

> wider, to allow for possible electric tram operation. Second, the rope was

> initially operated by the St Kilda Road engine house. When the trackwork at

> Swanston Street was re-arranged in late 1925, due to the conversion of St

> Kilda Road to electric trams, the rope was then operated by the Fitzroy

> engine house. In that conversion, the grips of west bound cars swapped from

> having the rope on the left side to having the rope on the right side.

> Therefore the pulleys would have needed to reversed.

>

> You could also argue that the track across Swanston Street was the last

> section of cable track built. It was constructed in late December 1925, 20

> months after the the new trackwork west of Swanston Street.

>

> Brian Weedon

>

>

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