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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