Of course they really meant the 'down' end of the station.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, 14:01 Andrew Cook, D3619@...> wrote:

> From the Melbourne Age, 3 December, 1925. A Wattle Park electric tram

> derails on the railway/tramway square at Riversdale, causing a 2-hour delay

> to railway traffic. In those two hours, the Victorian Railways had

> organised shuttle rail services on both sides of the tram derailment and a

> road motor service! An electric train ran shuttles to and from Ashburton,

> the 'Deepdene Dasher' steam service ran back and forth between Riversdale

> and East Camberwell, and a road motor took up the East Camberwell to

> Deepdene service temporarily. These days the clowns would be running around

> with ipads and digital cameras, achieving nothing in particular, as the

> railway (and tramway?) was shut down for a week, as the bozos investigated

> what happened. Meanwhile, passengers would probably have to wait for

> replacement buses, or walk!

>

> Cheers,

> Andrew Cook (impressed by the organisational skills of 1925).

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