Thanks for your kind words, William.

It’s funny to think that when I took all that video decades ago, it was just for me and maybe the odd friend to watch, not that I ever watched them myself. Now with the magic of YouTube, anyone in the world can watch if they want to.

Yes Melbourne trams have changed so radically even over the last 20 years that we tend to forget how it used to look.

Unfortunately I don’t think I have any more vintage video or movie film of Melbourne to share. But even the recent Driver’s View videos in the future will have captured times later changed.

Regards,

Richard

On 19 Oct 2018, at 7:33 pm, William Jackson apairofjacks@...> wrote:

Thank goodness for Richard and his Handi Cam?

How things have changed, King Street flyover, car park on the corner of Flinders and Spencer, Hitachi’s, “M-train”, Green and Yellow trams, Grey, apparently clean? trams. The City Circle tourist tram has been going for at least this long.

Thank you
William - Appreciating his own city

From: 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder [mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups..com]
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2018 8:07 PM
To:tramsdownunder@...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Abandoned Track in Melbourne?

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

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