Re: Remembering a weeekend of tramway infamy

[Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

IIRC the Springfield line was the last one to be closed in Hobart, so today is
the 40th anniversary of Tasmania's last revenue tram?


jshugg@westpac.com.au wrote:
> 
> In article <pvVH5.5593$e5.14611@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>,
>   "Paul Nicholson" <pn1@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > A noted tramway historian has described Saturday 22 October 1960
> as "a day
> > of infamy"!
> >
> > No less than four tram lines in three cities closed on that day; Point
> > Ormond in Melbourne, Springfield in Hobart and Botany and Coogee in
> Sydney.
> >
> > I would be pleased to hear of any commemoration in Hobart.
> >
> > Paul Nicholson
> > Melbourne
> > 20 October 2000
> >
> Thanx for the reminder.  I'm in Hobart this weekend catching up with
> family but if I can escape and pinch Dad's car I'll pop along to the
> Tas Transport Museum where they have one or two old Hobart trams,
> including No. 141 which I last saw as a kid in the mid 70s stored in
> the old roundhouse at Hobart railway station.
> 
> Gosh 40 years!
> 
> James
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