RE: Ship to tram connection

I presume the extension onto the pier at Port Melbourne has not yet been
started. The rails currently (last August, anyway) set in the wharf are
broad gauge remnants of its old railway role - right?

On this topic - if you go back to the 'old days' ship-tram connections were
legion. The Onehunga tram line in Auckland was built close to the wharf so
that passengers could easily transfer to the steamer services that used the
port. For a few years before through train services started in early 1909,
an Auckland-Wellington journey involved tram to Onehunga, steamer to New
Plymouth, train to Wellington - and probably another tram journey at that
end as well.

Brent Efford

-----Original Message-----
From: pn1.rm [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, 1 July 2002 3:26 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Ship to tram connection


I caught the "Spirit of Tasmania" from Devonport on Saturday
afternoon. On Saturdays the ship departs Devonport at 1600 to arrive
at Port Melbourne at 0500 Sunday. The first tram is not till 0714 so
quite a long connection but six people did it. Fortunately the
waiting lounge at Station Pier was open. I made a nice connection at
Parliament to the first down Lilydale (due 0743) and was surprised to
see a reasonable load for the first train on a Sunday morning.
Probably not too many ship to tram connections these days! Any others
that come to mind?
Paul in Melbourne.





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