Fw: September first week listings
WALTER Bennett
Friday, August 30, 2002 11:38 AM
----- Original Message -----
From: Ronald
Scholten
To: WALTER Bennett
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:14 PM
Subject: September first week listings
Graeme,
As
promised for TDU members - first week for September :-
Sep 1 - 1918 - (near Sep 1)
Extension in Burke Rd from Camberwell Rly Stn to Cotham Rd -
Opened
Sep 1 1921 - Power supply made
available to FTT by VR Newport Power
Station
Sep 1 - 1926 - Extension of
VR Electric Tramway from Black Rock to Beaumaris
Opened
Sep 1 - 1931 - Black Rock -
Beaumaris section of VR Electric tramway
Closed
Sep 1 - 1958 - 8 pm to last tram
'jigger' service Northcote to Thornbury, - 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm 'jigger' service
Moreland to East Brunswick commenced.
Sep 1 - 1969 - Crossover in
Spencer St south of Bourke St withdrawn
Sep 1 - 1984 - ( About ) East
Brunswick terminus altered.
Sep 2 - 1873 - First Cable tramway
in the world Opened in Clay St San Francisco USA.
Sep 3 - 1914 - (About) McCarty
& Underwood submitted detailed report for the St Georges Rd Tramway to the
Northern District Tramway Extension League.
Sep 4 - 1878 - (About) Melbourne
Omnibus Co voluntarily wound up & reformed as the Melbourne Tramway &
Omnibus Co.
Sep 5 - 1881 - (About) Victorian
Tramway Co formed
Sep 6 - 1921 - Footscray Electric
lines Opened
Sep 6 - 1980 - Nth Coburg route
all Z operation
Sep 6 - 1993 - Work on Wattletree
Rd from Tooronga Rd to terminus.
Sep 7 - 1975 - Traffic lights at
Camberwell Junction (5 ways) turned on.
(Copied from the MMTB listings 1887 to
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