Z3 departure Nth Fitzroy.
Graeme
Monday, February 18, 2002 7:10 AM
Now that I have a bit more time to reach for the
right book's I can answer your questions to the dates of the Z 3 departure from
North Fitzroy and the opening of the light rail lines.
On September the 7th 1987 all Z 3's were
transfered from North Fitzroy to Essendon depot,thus Essendon Depot became
an all Z class depot.
The W class trams from Essendon Depot were
transfered to Kew Depot and A2 class trams from Kew Depot were transfered to
North Fitzroy.
On May 25 1987 A class trams comenced operation at
South Melbourne Depot.
On November 22 1987 the light rail line opened to
St Kilda and was operated with A2 class trams along with B class 2001 and 2002
from South Melbourne and North Fitzroy Depots.
On December 20 1987 the Port Melbourne light rail
line opened.
Note the original route of the Port Melbourne light
rail line ran from Port Melbourne along the light rail line to Claredon st
,Spencer st ,then turned into Bourke st. along Spring st. and Nicholson st
terminating outside the Exhibition Buildings just north of Gertrude
st.
September 1 1988 B class trams comenced operating
the light rail route St Kilda to East Brunswick from South Melbourne
Depot.
November 20 1988 After the depot fan at North
Fitzroy Depot was altered to a trianguler layout North Fitzroy began running B
class trams on the East Brunswick St Kida light rail.The overhead was altered
for pantograph operation only at the depot fan and this ended the Z class trams
from Preston Depot operating to North Fitzroy and East Brunswick in the peak
hours.
In April 1989 B class trams began to operate the
Port Melbourne light rail service.
Janurary 20 1991 Both light rail routes operated
exclusivey by B class trams.
December 19 1992 Noth Fitzroy depot closed as
a tram depot with the transfere of the operation of East Brunswick to
St Kilda route 96 to South Melbourne depot.At the same time the Port Melbourne
light rail route was altered by eliminating the Exhibition route and extending
the Mont Albert to City trams to operate to Port Melbourne.and Kew Depot to
operate it with A class trams.
All of the above information is from the
publication Time line History of Melbournes Goverment Cable and Electric Trams
and buses. By Barry George,Don Storey, John Birch ET al. trucker
Graeme.
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