The trolley buses from the car barn to take up running on the riverside TB route and the later TB routes via the horseshoe bridge used the tram wires and a ‘skate’ on the tram track to reach the city along Hay St, then turn left to reach Barrack St and The Esplanade. They then coasted along The Esplanade until they reached the TB wires at the foot of William St. Several of my pictures [attached] show this coasting procedure ‘with poles down’ and skate stowed away. I have a picture somewhere of a TB turning left from Hay to Barrack Sts with the skate about to derail because the tram facing points were set for the straight instead of the LH curve.

Noel Reed.

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Sent: Saturday, 18 November 2017 7:53 PM
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Hi all,

From the pages of the February 2017 issue of Carbarn, the newsletter of the Perth Electric Tramway Society in Whiteman Park Western Australia, came this report which is timely given the discussion of late re the photo of Perth tram No 85.

100 years ago

From the original terminus in Barrack Street at the Esplanade/Weld Club, the tramway company extended a single track south to the Barrack Street

Jetty to meet the ferries from South Perth. With increased services, 73 cars now run to the foot of Barrack Street daily, causing delays with as many as 12

trams waiting at the end of the double track to shunt. NB the double line ended at the junction of the Barrack St and the Esplanade lines. – see map below.

A deputation to the Minister for Railways from the South Perth Council requested that the remainder of the track in Barrack Street be duplicated, together with

a loop around the jetty area to speed up the service by completely eliminating shunting.

The Minister, after viewing the plan, said he could see the need for such a line, and he would consider the matter.

The suggestion was agreed with and the extension opened in 1917, and the bottleneck was eliminated.

The loop was one of two ‘built for purpose’ loops on the tramway system in Perth (the other was at the Carbarn sidings behind the WACA), although there were many loops that were created by trams running around different blocks in Perth city.

Bob in Perth

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Sent: Saturday, 18 November 2017 6:34 AM
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Subject: RE: [TramsDownUnder] Perth 85 again

This map of the Perth tram, trolleybus and ferry system may help locate features mentioned in this discussion:

https://digitised-collections.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/23943/114312__b23733342_TIF_jp2000.jpg?sequence=5 https://digitised-collections..unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/23943/114312__b23733342_TIF_jp2000.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y &isAllowed=y

The ferry wharves at the foot of Barrack St are today served by the Blue CAT bus. Patronage on the ferry system has been growing in leaps and bounds in recent years. There are also private cruise tour-boats available up and down the river and out to Rottnest Island.

Tony P

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