Re: Melbourne Aus 80th anniversary of suburban electrification

[David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>]

David McLoughlin wrote:

> What pedantic nonsense.
> 
> The St Kilda to Brighton tramway was a tram, was a tram, was a tram,
> using standard electric tramcars running wholly on street tracks down
> the middle of the roads, collecting their motive power from overhead
> wires via tolleypoles.

As I said earlier, there is a legal distinction between a railway and a tramway.
If the Act said it was an electric street railway, then it was a
railway. The Manx Electric Railway also looks like a tram, but it is
legally a railway.

Cheers
David