Does anyone know when route 48/109 tram junction was last renewed
On Sun, 5 Sep. 2021, 1:39 pm Yuri Sos, trams4me@...> wrote:
> If my mum had said to a junior Yuri, I'll meet you at Kew Junction, and
> I'd waited at Kew Post Office, I've got a clip over the ears for wasting
> her time 😳. She might say wait at the Cenotaph or Kew Post Office for
> tthat area. I seem to recall that there was a crossover in Cotham Road
> outside the Post Office - remember getting chucked off an outbound tram in
> pouring rain there (because I'd bought a 5d ticket instead of a 6d ticket)
> by an inspector.
>
> Both Googlemaps and Openstreetmap centre on the five way road junction in
> their search results for Kew Junction.
>
> If Kew Junction refers to tram junctions, why have I never heard of a name
> for the High Street / Barker's Road / Church Street tram junction, nor a
> term for Burwood Road / Church Street / Bridge Road tram junction, the
> latter stop having only been referred to as Hawthorn Bridge (I had to get
> on/off there when rowing at Xavier 53+ years ago, cheating as we were
> supposed to run to/from school to the boatsheds adjacent to the Bridge).
>
> Likewise is Camberwell Junction so named because it's a tram junction? In
> all my 70 years I'd never have thought so.
>
> Clarendon Street Junction used to be called Port Junction (still is on
> Googlemaps) and was unambiguously meant to convey the location of the Port
> Melbourne line and St Kilda line junction as there was no road there.
>
> Yuri.
>
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> On 5 September 2021 12:00:12 pm Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:
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>>
>> On 05/09/2021 07:59, David McLoughlin wrote:
>>
>> What intersection is officially regarded as Kew Junction?
>>
>> General usage for the term would include both intersections - and refers
>> to the shops etc in the area.
>>
>> See attached map from a report by the local council.
>>
>> However, the 'real' junction would be the point where Princess St meets
>> Studley Park Rd, High St etc.
>>
>> The commercial heart would be at the start of Cotham Rd - centred around
>> the Post Office.
>>
>>
>> Mal notes the works includes "Kew Junction" but what is meant by this?
>> The link and map are unclear. Do the works include the 48/109 tram
>> junction at the Cotham Rd corner or is this excluded?
>>
>> The actual works areas are marked on the map with pale orange cross
>> hatching.
>>
>> They include High St beside Kew Depot, Kew junction - but not the Cotham
>> Rd junction, and High St from Harp Rd to Burke Rd as you noted.
>>
>> Mal Rowe - out of range
>>
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