Gday Hal

I dont remember night Footy in the 60s and early 70s. It might have started
in the late 70s
when the Park, VFL park at Waverly got built and had floodlights.

Cheers, Mick.

----- Original Message -----
From: hecain@...>
To: TramsDownUnder@...>; "ferriquinoligist"
gbparsons03@...>
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Another tram tour

> Quoting ferriquinoligist gbparsons03@...>:

>

>> Trams used to run to Albert Park Beach on Sat & Sunday Afternoons

>> until the late 1950s.

>> Gary

>>

>> --- InTramsDownUnder@..., espee8800 <espee8800@...> wrote:

>>>

>>> A couple down Albert Park way. One under the former St Kilda railway

>>> line where an A class is passing overhead and the second is at Albert

>>> Park Beach terminus.

>>>

>>> Now a question for discussion - why was Albert Park Beach constructed?

>>> For beach traffic which has long since evaporated or for some other

>>> reason?

>

> The Albert Park terminus was also used as a parking siding for South

> Melbourne football traffic. I remember seeing a Kew extra table which

> gave the crew a trip between Brunswick St and the South Melbourne

> loop, then a second trip which ran to Albert Park (tabled as Mills &

> Danks Sts Cnr) and laid up till called after the match for a trip to

> Brunswick St and continue to run in to Kew Depot.

>

> Now I'm confused. Was there a night football competition in the

> 1950s-60s? Or was this a special event?

>

> Hal Cain