Re: W Class trams on Route 69?

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)]

cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON) wrote in aus.rail:

>: I know W-class trams run on routes 8, 12 and 69 as well as the city
>: circle.  But does the 69 (Kew Cotham Rd - St Kilda Beach via Glenferrie
>: Road and  Balaclava Junction) also use Ws out of Malvern depot?
>
>W's run routes 8&16 out of Malvern (the often swap routes at Melb Uni. 
>ie an 8 becomes a 16 and a 16 becomes an 8.)
>
>W's also run routes 12&city circle out of Southbank depot.
>
>That is all the routes they run now, so no they no longer run 69.
>
Seen today (17/09/99) at 11:40 am, cnr Balaclava & Hotham  SW6(?) 961
on a 69. The driver had a second person in the cab so presumably it
was a training run.

Les Brown.