Re: 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

[jdennis@acslink.net.au]

I said:

JD: Not according to all of us.  David Bromage insists that the tram
JD: from St Kilda to Brighton was a railway, and hence electric railways
JD: in the suburbs existed way before 1919.   :-)

Rod Smith said:
RBS: But the private railway from St Kilda to Brighton was not
RBS: electrified.

David Bromage added:
DB: That's not quite what I insisted. There was a private railway from
DB: St Kilda to Brighton before it was a tramway, owned by one
DB: incarnation of the Mebourne & Hobson's Bay (United?) Railway
DB: Company. However, VR did count its tramways as electric railways.

David Langley said in two postings to the same thread:
DL: Please refer to it as an Electric Street Railway, its correct title.

DL: And, if I'm not mistaken, the private railway is mostly still in
DL: existence i.e. Windsor to Brighton Beach and is now electrified.

Now, there seems to be some confusion here, in more than one direction.

I was under the impression that the line from St Kilda through Elwood to
Brighton - which became a VR tramline or Electric Street Railway was in
fact originally promulgated as such.  An Electric Street Railway.  Hence
my somewhat tongue in cheek remarks about electric *railways* existing
in the suburbs of Melbourne prior to 1919.  (There was a smiley).  I am
certainly prepared to admit I was wrong if indeed it was a steam railway
first, and being broad gauge it certainly is a possibility.

I was not talking about the St Kilda-Windsor-Brighton line, which now
forms the Sandrigham line beyond Windsor, and has been long dismantled
between St Kilda and Windsor.

I would be pleased to read about the history of what became the Victoria
Railways "Electric Street Street Railway" from St Kilda to Brighton -
unfortunately my "VR to 62" is securely stored in my archives.

Cheers...JD
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John Dennis
Home of the Dutton Bay Tramway
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