Gday Mal

A "C" van if im not mistaken

Cheers, Mick

On 18/08/2017 2:17 PM, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
> Here's another pic at the Geelong Railway station terminus.

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> http://tdu.to/Pengelley-19_Station.jpg

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> You can see a passenger brake van in the background. The trams were

> right at the station and reached it via a short branch off the North

> Geelong route.

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> Looking at the pic, it occurred to me that the design of most Victorian

> tram systems ignored the trains - or even purposely set out to steal

> traffic from them.

>

> I can only think of a few instances where there was an obvious effort to

> make the connection:

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> * The Victorian Railways tram lines (of course!)

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> * The original Bendigo battery / steam tramway

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> * The Footscray lines (they had to get their traffic from somewhere!)

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> Sydney seems to have had a much more integrated approach from the outset

> (of course), but the integration of Melbourne and Victorian tram and

> heavy rail transit systems is relatively recent - dating from the

> establishment of the Public Transport Corporation replacing the old

> competitive tramway / railway bodies.

>

> Mal Rowe - recognising that the PTC did start a positive trend

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