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Re: [Melb] Tram article, Saturday's Age
- Subject: Re: [Melb] Tram article, Saturday's Age
- From: "Gnome 412" <gnome412@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:13:50 +1000
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: F Market line fan
- References: <N%xK4.6945$5D.15268@ozemail.com.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:6406
Daniel Bowen wrote in message ...
>memories of riding the W's down Carlisle Street:
>- (The trams) would emit strange, apparently spontaneous
>digger-digger-digger noises.
>- I would try to get a place at the front window of the tram, where I could
>just see the hands of the driver moving the knobs and levers that made the
>tram go.
Sure, but it was much more fun travelling ACROSS Carlisle Steet in Barcly
Steet. I got my first chance to help the driver on the Railway Trams at the
age of 6! Putting me at the controls in 1952, he said something along the
lines of "these trams won't be here forever"!
Rgds