Re: Federation Tramway (Canberra)

[ajwright@spam.ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:31:12 +1200, David McLoughlin
<davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz> wrote:

>David Bromage wrote:
>> 
>> The Federation Tramway has failed to secure any Federation funding.
>> 
>> The steering committee (coordinated by the National Film and Sound
>> Archive)
>> is now seeking other Federal and ACT government and corporate funding to
>> build a heritage tramway between the National Museum on Acton Peninsula
>> and
>> the War Memorial.
>
>
>Why would Canberra, a city which never had trams, want a heritage
>tramway? The idea is bollocks.

  Well appart from the fact that Canberra's streets were designed to
have trams running down the centre of them, the idea as written above
was to effectivly link the National Museum to the city. It would have
been much like a government run museum, reperesnting all Australian
city trams for all Australians.


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