Re: "A new tram maintenance facility in Melbourne’s north-west"
  Steven Altham

When I was at east Preston 1987/1989 th ere was talk then about running to
mernda with a small stabling facility at mernda to start the first few
services in morning.

On Fri, 21 May 2021, 3:29 pm Mal Rowe, mal.rowe@...> wrote:

> On 20/05/2021 22:36, Andrew C wrote:

> > Wouldn't we like to see the details, especially the north west

> > maintenance facility.

> >

> Some very stale news:

>

> In 1983 The Met planned to put a new depot at Airport West.

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> Map attached.

>

> They were a bit half-hearted about the proposal - saying in the report

> that it might be better to acquire more land around the existing

> Essendon Depot.

>

> One thing the map does is to make it clear that once you say 'north

> west' your options are along

>

> route 59!

>

> Mal Rowe - quite sure that the costs will be way more than they were

> estimated at in 1983

>

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