Re: All-over advertising trams (Melb)

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> 
> Speaking of derelict W's, I noticed the other night as I was riding past
> that all of the Ws that were stored in the shed on the west of St George's
> Rd opposite the workshops have been removed. Is this the first stage of the
> removal of the Preston Workshops, which is part of the Yarra Trams sale
> contract?

That "shed" is the old Thornbury Depot, which was used for the West
Preston line before Preston Depot in Plenty Road near Bell Street was
opened when the former Bourke St-High St cable line-then-from
1940-to-1956-bus route was converted to electric trams (route 88 it was
originally) in 1956. It was not any formal part of Preston Workshops.

Thornbury Depot was used in recent years to store a heap of decrepit Ws
... one assumes they have now also been moved to the Newport dumphouse.
And that this otherwise empty depot can be sold to reduce the debt of
the state of Victoria. There is room there for a nice block of home
units.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand