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Re: 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

Subject: Re: 80th anniversary of suburban electrification
From: David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 22:22:42 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: East Highlands Railway
References: <3754D845.2536AEAF@omni.com.au> <19990602050951.23716.00007514@ng-ci1.aol.com>
Reply-To: del@ancc.com.au

MarkBau1 wrote:

> 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"

It is of course possible that the legal requirement regarding calling them electric
street railways had been removed by this time to reflect exactly what they were -
tramways.

David Langley.

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