Re: 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

St Kilda Brighton was itself beaten by the NEMTL routes to Essendon, and
the Box Hill - Doncaster tram line.

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Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au> wrote in article
<3749358e.622605@news.mpx.com.au>...
> On 24 May 1999 08:28:36 GMT, "Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>
> >On Sat.29.5 Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) is celebrating the 80th
> >anniversary of the introduction of suburban electric services.
> Not according to all of us.  David Bromage insists that the tram from
> St Kilda to Brighton was a railway, and hence electric railways in the
> suburbs existed way before 1919.   :-)