Re: [MELB] Old Tram Signs

["Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com>]

"Dave McL" <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Mathew Klock wrote:
> >
> > I found a sign a while back at a bus stop saying "Hail Trams Here"
> >
> > Strangly it was at least 20km from the nearest tram stop
> >
>
> While not saying you are mistaken, I wonder if such a sign could be from
> Melbourne?
>
> Melbourne's tram stops, until the Zs arrived in the mid-1970s, always
> had signs that said HAIL CARS HERE  and CARS STOP HERE. It was only with
> the coming of the Zs that the word "tram" was used in such signs and
> then the signs said TRAM STOP.

But, after the black, white & red "Tram Stop" signs of the 70s, there was a
variation on the first lot of green & yellow signs that said "Trams Stop
Here" & "Hail Trams Here". They were put up about 10 years ago, but were
soon replaced by the ones we have now. I don't have a photo, but I
distinctly remember them.

Regards,

Mike Alexander
(malex@bigfoot.com)