Re: 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

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

NMET&L Co and DBH &DT Co lines were constructed and operated as tramways and
not railways.

The St Kilda to Brighton Electric Street Railway was a railway and hence
must be credited as Victoria's first electric railway, even though the VR
often referred to it in Timetables and on tickets as a tramway.

As has been stated many times in this newsgroup, the two railway electric
street railways were operated as railways in the legal sense.

The line was the subject of several acts of parliament, and these would have
set out the legal details relating to ownership of right of way, and who had
to maintain the road surface.

The tramways act was there to cover all the non government operators who
wanted to construct lines without the need to pass legislation through
parliament,

Cheers
John Wayman

Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
01bea67e$0ea902c0$ce2d11cb@rodsmith">news:01bea67e$0ea902c0$ce2d11cb@rodsmith...
> St Kilda Brighton was itself beaten by the NEMTL routes to Essendon, and
> the Box Hill - Doncaster tram line.
>
> --
> Regards
> 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.   :-)
>