Re: Melbourne route 70 tram

[Stuart Turnbull <stuartt@netspace.net.au>]

Don Galt wrote:
> 
> From Roderick Smith:
> 
> >Rerouting from Swan St at Punt Rd ... The track in Swan St
> through the sporting precinct and along Batman Ave has been abandanoned. <<
> 
> Oh, that far east? So, then, does the new alignment parallel the railway
> until the point where it crosses over? And is there a new street, or just a
> new tramline?
> 
> Anybody know of a map of all this somewhere on the 'net?
> 
> BTW, Mike Alexander answered my question about the closure of 77-Prahran:
> November 1986.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Don


It is a new tram track. Sharp R hand turn out of Swan Street into 
Flinders Park, then a sharp L hand turn to parallel the existing 
Richmond-FSS railway (now much reduced in width as Jolimont workshops 
and all the stabling roads have been abolished. There is a tram storage 
track opposite the MCG (a new stop is to be built here). There is a stop 
at the Tennis Centre and a new stop at the bottom of the Bridge before 
the tram tracks enter the bridge. The bridge is a feeder route to the 
new Tollway (?Monash hwy) but is not yet open to road traffic, so the 
trams and tram photographers have it all to themselves.

Stuart Turnbull