RE: Johnston Street cable tracks in Melbourne
  William Jackson

Would it be a popular / useful / justifiable route if re-opend?
William - Thinking out loud...

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Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Johnston Street cable tracks in Melbourne

The tracks in Lygon Street and at the top end of Russell Street were dug up in 1962. Here are a couple of photos of it happening. I'm not sure how much of the line was done then.

David Walker


On 05-Jan-19 3:15 PM, David McLoughlin wrote:
> A question about what became of the cable tram tracks in Johnston

> Street, Melbourne. Known as the Collingwood line, it closed in April

> 1939 and was replaced at the time by buses.

>

> Were the cable tracks dug up or covered over? I believe they were

> there for many years after the cable line closed, because, according

> to schemes I have seen maps of, the MMTB planned to electrify them

> and extend the line via Kew to Bulleen as, I understand, the next

> major project after the Bourke Street conversion in 1955-56. Keeping

> the tracks in situ meant no act of Parliament was needed for electric tracks.

>

> But Bolte was elected in 1955..... and the bus via Johnston Street

> and Kew to Bulleen remained, joined to the Port Melbourne bus that

> replaced the cable tram to there that was closed in March 1937 (I

> believe the MMTB also intended to convert that line to electric services, pre-Bolte...).

>

> I am minded to raise this question because of a photo posted on the

> TDU FB group of cable tracks still in place in Lonsdale Street in

> 1962. I remember my father showing me cable tracks being dug up

> somewhere when I was a small child, and these might have been the

> Lonsdale St ones, as they were removed in 1963 which would have been

> about right in time and place (he often took me to the state library

> when I was even very youngl, and that is one block from Lonsdale

> Street). But they might also have been the Johnston Street tracks, if

> they were removed at a similar time, assuming they were removed.

>

> The FB post on Lonsdale St also reminded me of Mal Rowe's photo from

> 2007 of the old cable tracks in Abbotsford Street North Melbourne

> (last used in July 1935) being exposed by roadworks:

>

> https://tdu.to/51176.msg/Cable_track_AbbotsfordSt_19May2007.jpg?fbclid

> =IwAR3eqVlAyWKVrSQbRGTGrU-B5MWHLTWdoy4SE_WzYXdlRaQEmLcoXMVpEM0

>

>

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> david mcloughlin, New Zealand

> "Be careful what you wish for..."

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