Re: COTMA, Ferny Grove etc (was YATM for Melbourne)

On Sun, 12 May 2002 12:49:46 +1200, Brent wrote:

It seems as though souvenir shop/visitor centre operation and the public
interface is a point of difficulty for most tram museums.

It is generally
not a function which attracts the most suitable volunteers, and a disaster
if left to the least suitable. Ideally it should be done as a commercial
operation with competent paid staff, but I doubt if any of the museums would
have the customer numbers to make that feasible (except maybe where the
tramway is part of a larger professional museum/theme park operation like
MOTAT, or where it is part of a municipally-supported operation like
Wellington's Cable Car Museum).

I found recently that even the otherwise superbly organised Critch
Tramway Village (incorporating the National Tramway Museum) in the UK
suffered from this problem.

Cheers,

Bill


Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia

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