Thanks to everyone who replied with information. I’ll take a look next February. It still seems like an expensive second thought with debatable benefits.

Some readers may not know that the Eurotram spent its nights on the third track because it was considered unable to negotiate the curves between there and South Melbourne Depot (probably Park and Clarendon Sts. South Melbourne) but luckily could turn the Flinders St Spencer St corner. If anyone wants to see the Eurotram running:

Eurotram from Portugal in Melbourne https://youtu.be/LFhzVESREXg

Regards,

On 19 Oct 2018, at 7:20 am, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:

> On 19/10/2018 7:38 AM, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder wrote:

> The ABC’s comedy program Mad as Hell on Wednesday night showed a ‘reporter’ walking along a couple of hundred metres of what looks very much like abandoned track.

>

> In the second photo, you can see a B class some distance across to the left.

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> I knew that a siding or something had been abandoned in Docklands, but this looks to be quite a long section.

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> Didn’t the planners know what they were doing?

>

Correct!
There's a Google View at:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.8160844,144.945274,114m/data=!3m1!1e3

When the Docklands tramway was built the tramway ran on the western side of Harbour Esplanade and there was a central third track for terminating services.
A few years later, the tracks were moved into the centre of Harbour Esplanade and a new terminating stub built in Footscray Rd ( shown in my recent pic at https://tdu.to/m/255004/the-long-stub ).

I attach a pic from that memorable day 15 years back when Siemens, Bombardier and Alstom put their oifferings side by side on these tracks.

Mal Rowe - who could only afford 2.2 mega pixels at the time