Fw: Park & Claredon Sts
graeme bennett
Sunday, September 15, 2002 10:10 AM
for your information
WGB
----- Original Message -----
From: Ronald
Scholten
To: WALTER Bennett
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 5:15 PM
Subject: Park & Claredon Sts
Graeme,
When the
electrics got their freedom to run across the system, at Park & Claredon the
Preston trams ran to Sth Melb Bch, which means they turned right from Claredon
into Park St, the Brunswick trams were St Kilda Via Sth Melb and would have
turned left from Park St into Claredon St and may have only
gone as far as the Albert Park Bch terminus until they extended as is today
until Mary St where it ran and joined onto the Upper Esplanade service via
Beaconsfield Pde. I saw the tracks connecting but never saw a tram use or
be photographed on it. Caught a w several times at this terminus route 10. The
council asked for the trams to be changed and be through routed hence the change
B to Sth Melb Bch & P to Sth Melb & St K Bch. Some old photos of the
late Clive M. Gibson have the old destination St Kilda Via Sth Melb. Thats why -
I think. on the early electric route numbers it reads Albert Park - East Coburg
route 1. This change happened around 1953. Regards -
Ron
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