Yes - your picture was taken about 25 years after the tramline was
converted from cable to electric operation.

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On 25 May 2017 at 22:51, 'Noel Reed'noelreed10@...
[TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Hi Dean,

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> Was this the level crossing you referred to ?

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> [image: Picture of SW6-884-St Georges Rd Level Crossing. N F Reed.jpg]

> http://tdu.to/a41187/SW6-884-St%20Georges%20Rd%20Level%20Crossing.%20N%20F%20Reed.jpg

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> Noel Reed.

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> *Sent:* Thursday, 25 May 2017 10:42 PM

> *To:*TramsDownUnder@...

> *Subject:* [TramsDownUnder] Re: Cable tram mechanical details

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> Haven't heard of the bolt before, but it would seem that it didn't always

> work !

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> [image: Inline images 1]

> [image: Inline images 2]

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> [TDU archive images]

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> And it wasn't just the hilly streets, the slot and conduit collected all

> manner of objects - including money and jewellery; I have read an account

> of cleaning the tunnels (and what was found), probably in "Mind the Curve".

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> As a guide at Bylands in the 1980s, whenever a bloke who was old enough to

> remember the cable trams visited, they invariably regaled a common tale:

> Saturday afternoons they would attach one end of a fishing line to an old

> jam tin (or 4 gallon kero tin - if they were feeling game) and the other

> end to a hook (or sinkers, or anything else handy). The hook end of the

> line was then dangled down the slot until it caught the cable - which then

> drag the tin rattling down the street, to the casual observer apparently

> under its own propulsion ! The young lads thought it hilarious, but I

> wonder if the Board had to send-out a truck each Saturday to collect piles

> of old tins piled-up at the first curve they encountered ?

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