Re: 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

[markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1)]

<<<<<Again, it's not colloquial. They call(ed) themselves tramways for the
same reason Silverton did. It's a legal difference to reduce the amount
of infrastructure they have to maintain.>>>>>

I think you'll find that only the government could call a rail operation in its
state a railway, everyone else had to call themselves tramways, at least thats
how I understand it as it applied in Victoria.

BTW, I just got a photocopy of a 1964 VR annual report. It lists the
Sandringham to Black Rock and St Kilda to Brighton as "Electric Tramways" it
notes both as "dismantled" and appears in appendix No. 6

So much for the myth that VR could not call any of its operations "tramways"

Mark.


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