Re: 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

But the railway from St Kilda to Brighton Beach via Windsor was a different
line to the St Kilda Brighton Electric Street Railway which ran via Elwood.

The Electric Street Railway was operated under the Railways Act, and was
opened on 5 May 1906.

Thus Melbourne's first electric railway was 93 years ago!

Cheers
John Wayman

David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> John Dennis wrote:
> >
> > On 24 May 1999 08:28:36 GMT, "Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >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.   :-)
>
> That's not quite what I insisted. There was a private railway from St
> Kilda to Brighton before it was a tramway, owned by one incarnation of
> the Mebourne & Hobson's Bay (United?) Railway Company. If you go to the
> Latrobe Library you can find copies of the timetables in Bradshaw's.
>
> However, VR did count its tramways as electric railways.
>
> Cheers
> David