Re: Destination Signs

["Bob Merchant" <bob.merchant@bigpond.com>]

David,
It did although it was not displayed for very long, and I do have a photo of
it somewhere.  The same tour arrived at Camberwell Depot where the
destination "Hong Kong" in Chinese characters was rolled up.  A conductor of
Chinese descent was asked what the destination read, and he replied "Hong
Kong, but it is badly written."  This was not surprising as it had been
copied from a clothing label!  A photo of the tour car displaying "Loftus"
as the destination appeared on the cover of the M&MTB's house magazine,
which caused the Board's Chairman to ask the tour's accompanying Inspector
how he knew how to change destination rolls in a tramcar. He didn't have to
know as it was the passengers who swapped the roll!

Regards,
Bob Merchant
"David McLoughlin" <davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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| I hope this is not an urban legend. It deserves to be true.
|
| Melbourne (Australia) has one of the world's largest tramway (streetcar)
| systems, with 30 routes, 240 km of track, about 500 trams (streetcars)
| and the system is constantly expanding (99 new low-floor articulated
| trams at present on order, three major route extensions under way
| [Docklands, Box Hill, Knox City]).
|
| Anyhow, a number of Melbourne's tram routes go through or terminate in
| the eastern suburb of Kew (named of course after Kew in London;
| Melbourne is a very English city in some respects though very
| multicultural in most others).
|
| The destination signs on the trams include:
|
| KEW DEPOT
| KEW - COTHAM RD
| KEW JUNCTION
| KEW CEMETERY
|
|
| But I have reliably been told that a tram enthusiasts' group hired a
| tram and went to Kew and put on the destination sign:
|
| FAR KEW