E2.6100 rolled into service on Friday 1 October 2021, completing the order for these 100 Bombardier-built Flexity Swift-based trams.

Because of lockdown, I exercised in St Kilda this morning.
It's spring in Melbourne which means "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes".

Dark clouds scudding across the sky with bursts of sunshine at all the wrong times made photography a little challenging.

E2.6100 heads along the Esplanade on route 96 nearing the terminus in Acland Street:
https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2021/6100_esplanade_a7r3_15626.jpg
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E2.6100 returned a short time later bound for East Brunswick, the clouds breaking up, but no sun:
https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2021/6100_esplanade_a7r3_15751.jpg
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Finally, I decided I needed to take my exercise at Clarendon Street Junction and was rewarded with E2.6100 arriving in a patch of sunshine:
https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2021/6100_clarendon_a7r3_15813.jpg
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Yuri.
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