On 8/12/2017 8:15 PM, Richard Youltressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
> Because of the style of the construction, it would not surprise me if that good old track may date back to cable conversion days 80 odd years ago.


This was not a cable conversion.
This track was originally built for the Melbourne Brunswick and Coburg Tramways Trust in 1916 as a parallel competitor for the cable trams in Sydney Rd to the West and Rathdowne St to the East.
See: http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/mbctt.htm

I'm confident it's not 101 years old!

More later.

Mal Rowe - doing research