Re: Melbourne Tram Route 9

["D Lindstrom" <D_Lindstrom@Bigpond.com>]

"David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
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> Ian Jelf wrote:
> >
> > When was this withdrawn, can anyone help?
>
> About 10 years ago.
>
> Hardly a withdrawal. The only route it had of itself was over "the hump"
> across the railway line at Preston workshops. One stop. The rest of the
> route was identical to the West Preston route, which turns left at the
> hump while the one-stop of the 9 went right.
>
> Long history behind all this. To do with cable trams, early electric
> trams and the 1955-56 Bourke Street bus-to-tram conversion. Too busy to
> tell it tonight.
I remember Alan Brown saying , when he Minister from Transport, that so few
passengers used the service, it would be cheaper to send them by taxi.
David Lindstrom