Re: Re: Tram simulator
  Malcolm Rowe

Steam trams were specifically excluded in the Act to set up the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co.
This was reported as being due to a Victorian MP visiting Sydney and finding the steam trams dirty and noisy.

The MT&OCo planned to go for a micture of horse and cable, but after the initial success of cable opted to go all cable except for some small feeder lines.

Mal Rowe

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But they ran concurrently with the new-fangled electric systems, with a decent amount of overlap between horse, cable and electric power (did Victoria dabble with steam trams at all ?)

Sydney managed to build, operate and close the horse car line, then later built the steam/electric lines. So many people refer to the 'great Sydney tramway' as the 2nd generation system, the first being the failed horse car line.

What Sydney has now is our 3rd generation tramway.

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 15:32, Tram Gunzle tramgunzle@...mailto:tramgunzle@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, horse trams preceded cable tram in Melbourne - by a most a year !

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