Adelaide Tram Destination Rolls
Chris Brownbill (cbrnbill@enternet.com.au)
Wed, 30 Apr 1997 18:50:24 -0700
As I was idly wandering around Melbourne City streets on my lunch break
today I noticed a window display in the "High And Mighty" clothing store
in Little Collins Street (Centrepoint Arcade) featuring very prominently
six destination rolls from what I assume to be Adelaide trams. The
destinations include Morialta, Rostrevor, Hackney, Magill, Paradise,
West Beach, Glydne, Walkerville North, St Peters, Kingswood etc etc. It
really looks good.
But, I'm curious about these rolls because they also contain the
following destinations to which trams did not run: Northfield and
Firle. Also, they contained a 'destination' of FULL, and the
traditional Adelaide minimum fare indications of Minimum 15c and Minimum
20c. But thinks I, the guts of Adelaide's trams were closed in 1958,
decimal currency was introduced in 1966 - what's going on here? Could
these be bus desto rolls showing 95% tram destinations or are they good
fakes with a glaring error?