Re: [Melbourne Australia] Mont Albert to Box Hill and Docklands tramway extensions

[Deeg <galtfd@att.net>]

>I have always thought a tram terminus in Market Street at Main Street is
>the most logical place to put it.

Three cheers for David's reasoning. But this would be a new departure,
since connection between tram route and railway route in Melbourne has
generally been a matter of chance. Look at East Malvern, Carnegie -
for that matter, Mont Albert.

>You may be thinking of the short-lived electric tram from Box Hill to
>Doncaster via Station Street and what is now called Tram Road, operated
>by a land speculation company which soon went bust from 1889 to 1896.
>This line, which ran on a dirt track through empty paddocks, was the
>first electric tramway in the southern hemisphere.
>
That was the first thought on reading this heading: All they need to
do now is turn north from Whitehorse Road and history will finally be
vindicated, a mere 110 years late.

Don Galt