It is only three or four years to go to the centenary.  So what is being organized to celebrate the 100th year since the Swanston tram route was electrified?

Regards

Dudley

On 14/01/2022 2:00 pm, Olaf Guettler wrote:
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>

> There was an article in Turning Point 4 weeks later.

> Am Fr., 14. Jan. 2022 um 03:38 Uhr schrieb Bill Johnson pincush@...>:

>

> I think  (?) I was there that day, certainly a bright happy

> occasion. At the end I somehow found myself on either 2000 or 2001

> and suddenly at high speed was whisked off to Brunswick Depot – or

> chucked out one stop before, the sole ‘passenger’   On the way the

> driver sang loudly in excellent baritone..  My hesitancy is

> perhaps there were two such days and I might have confused them.

> Anyway, the one with the then new B.

>

> Bill J

>

> *From:*tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com

> tramsdownunder@...> *On Behalf Of *Olaf Guettler

> *Sent:* Friday, 14 January 2022 12:51 PM

> *To:*tramsdownunder@...

> *Subject:* Re: [TramsDownUnder] Tram parade reprise

>

> That day I was a conny on S-class tram  tram 164 , Ron Scholten

> was the driver.

>

> They had a big coverage about the parade on channel 9 ( or 7?) 7pm

> news.

>

> Next day at the depot several staff members asked for my 

> autograph because I featured prominently, beeing filmed on the

> running board when the tram crossed Flinders Street.

>

>    Cheers, Olaf

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