Re: [Melb] Tram article, Saturday's Age

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <deDK4.7160$5D.15592@ozemail.com.au>,
  "Gnome 412" <gnome412@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Yes they will! apparently W class will be last for the entire franchie
for Yarra Tram.

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Cheers

James


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