Re: Remnants

  David Langley <[email protected]> wrote:

Brent Efford wrote:
>
> Interesting question, Mal. I was about to ask the same thing - Melbourne must be pretty unusual among surviving first-generation tramway systems in not having a lot of track that is not regularly used. Apart from the two examples we have been discussing, I can only think of the West Preston (opposite the Workshops - is that its right name?)

No.

This shed you mention is the former Preston Depot, replaced in 1955? by
the present Preston Depot sometimes called East Preston but it isn't
really. The former Preston Depot was renamed Thornbury (but not depot)
at the same time. A depot is a running shed with crews etc., and since
the opening of the present Preston Depot, Thornbury then became a
storage shed for cars waiting to go over the road to Preston Workshops
but since about the early to mid 1990's has been unused for such. It's
last use AFAIK was the storage of surplus W cars prior to their transfer
to the test track and then Henderson's Springs and latterly Newport
Workshops. It's last use to store "working cars" was when the depot fan
at Preston was being rebuilt sometime in the 1990's and some W cars from
the West Preston route were stabled there but crews still signed on and
off at Preston Depot.


> and (temporarily)
> Hawthorn depots. Any others? In fact, Melbourne currently has a much greater
> length of partly-completed track waiting to be brought into service -
> Docklands, Whitehorse Rd and Port Melbourne Pier spring to mind.
>
> As far as other remnants go, I guess anything with M&MTB on it now
> qualifies, too!

There are still a lot of electrical cabinets and cable trench covers
around the system with MMTB on them.

cheers

David.


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 >david.                                                                                                                                                                                            >Old Preston Depot was originally vacated on the weekend of 25-26-55, and no 1 shed was used to store W7's awaiting placement in service.The fan of no 2 shed was used to store Preston cars laying  over between peaks.The track was then lifted to enable the shed to be used to store redundant Bourke St.buses.Track was then relaid in late 1960 so the shed no 1 & 2 could be used to store  W2,W3,X1 &X2classes.The no1 shed stored most of the W2's until 1967,then stored  other W2,s until 1987,then various w class trams until 1996.The shed was used as a running shed in late May 1992 when Preston depot fan was being relayed.                                                                                                                                                                                            Yahoo! Digital How To - Get the best out of your PC!

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