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This wall is a reminder of what was called "The Shed End" at Chelsea Football Clubs old Stamford Bridge Ground before it was rebuilt into a modern all seater Stadium in the 1990's
The old Stadiums highest crowd was 82,905 before being cut to a average of 40,437 when rebuilt
Stamford Bridge, Fulham Road. London, SW6. UK
Originally a park lodge when this land was developed as Fulham Recreation Ground in 1891. The lodge has since been re-purposed for use by alternative healthcare but the park remains, now known as Lillie Road Recreation Ground. London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.
Metroline West VWH2178 (LK16 DFX) on Route 114, Arriva London SW6 (LK16 BYG) on Route 340, Harrow Bus Station
SW6 866
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Turning from Fulham Broadway into Harwood Road, AEC Routemaster No. RM1865 works route 11 on 7th June 1977.
RM 1865 was delivered new to Alperton garage for use on route 18 in March 1964. It was withdrawn in February 1985 and sold to PVS (Carlton) for scrap. [Ref. Ian's Bus Stop]
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Cesar Azpilicueta just before kick-off against Newcastle United.
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Route 340s allocation was transferred to Palmers Green garage, as most of Garston Garage routes were being awarded to other operators which led to the garage's closure. The route now sees quite a variety, with some Volvo B5L hybrids making some apperances as well as some Enviro400s.
Another memory from my some 18 years living and working in Melbourne, SW6.923 is snapped in Cameron St. opposite the Upfield line, a location which at the time offered the enthusiast to capture scenes of Melbourne's iconic W class trams and Comeng commuter trains operating in tandem to each other.
Cameron St. is a access road in and out of the Brunsick tram depot from Moreland Rd.
SW6.923 - In service 1946. Currently stored at Newport Workshops.Another memory from my some 18 years living and working in Melbourne, SW6.923 is snapped in Cameron St. opposite the Upfield line, a location which at the time offered the enthusiast to capture scenes of Melbourne's iconic W class trams and Comeng commuter trains operating in tandem to each other.
Cameron St. is a access road in and out of the Brunsick tram depot from Moreland Rd.
SW6.923 - In service 1946. Currently stored at Newport Workshops.
A London Transport District Line Upminster to Wimbledon train composed of R stock between Fulham Broadway and Parsons Green on 7th June 1977.
R Stock electric multiple units, built by Birmingham RC&W and Gloucester RC&W, were used on London Underground's District line from 1949 to 1983.
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Yet Again Many Thanks To NBH Trust For The Classic On The Left www.flickr.com/photos/132944535@N04/20936642939/ Caroline Walk Once Caroline Place And Has Been Curtailed Over The Years....The Half Way House Pub On The Left Stood For Over 100 Years Before Closing In 2013...Its Now A Co-Op....Building In Lillie Road Still Stands..
Ex Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board SW6 class tram number 865 is seen preserved at Clunes, Victoria. This tram entered service on the 22nd of November, 1940 and was withdrawn sometime in the 1990's. After being stored at the railway workshops at Newport for many years, it was sold off.
It is now preserved in the grounds of a primary school. The driver's controls have been removed from both ends however the passenger saloon is reasonably intact with most of the seats still in place.
The tram is not on its bogies but is supported on stands on a concrete pad.
The township of Clunes is located 86 miles north-west of Melbourne. 12:06pm, Thursday the 11th of March, 2021.
The only bit of Arriva's Garston operation that will remain after 1 September 2018 is route 340. That is by virtue of the fact that Arriva have moved the allocation to Palmers Green garage! SW6, a Wright Streetlite, is seen departing Edgware bus station on a trip to Harrow.
Members of Melbourne's once iconic W class fleet languishing in the Newport Workshops.
Reminiscing on my some 18 years living and working in Melbourne until 1996 on Australia Day 2016, still remember how I made something of a "hobby" of photographing some of the W class trams being transported from the Preston Workshops to the Newport railway workshops in January and February 1994 as part of a more permanent storage site arrangement, with many of the shots being snapped from a park at the corner of Epsom and Smithfield Rds. near the Flemington Racecourse.
Those trams were SW5 class 764, 769, 726, 731, 775, 814, 733, 789, 830, 737, 889, 765; SW6 917, 873 and 985.
WHY ARE MOST OF THE W CLASS TRAMS STORED?
In 1990, the National Trust classified all remaining W class trams, thereby making them Heritage items. A combination of the Trust, unions and the State Government put an end to W class trams being removed from Victoria. This means that the trams listed as being stored at Newport Workshops are sitting in a bloody big warehouse gathering dust and slowly rotting away instead of either being sold or donated to individuals and/or groups that would take care of them and restore them to their former greatness.
Another set of trams is listed as being part of the Ready Reserve fleet stored at Preston Workshops.
At last report, these 50 trams were supposed to be kept for emergency services such as extras for sporting events etc. but 43 of them have been stored in the old Plate Shop at the back of Preston Workshops, all bar five are not on rails. SW6 936 is stored in the workshops yard as it would not fit in the Plate Shop.
Another 7 have been stored at various suburban depots.
MELBOURNE'S FAMOUS GREEN AND YELLOW W-CLASS TRAMS LEFT TO RUST
Herald Sun July 21, 2015
Melbourne's famous W-class trams are being left to rust.
The popular tourist trams, which offer a free ride around the City Circle loop and through the Docklands, are slowly being phased out.
Despite their historic ties to the city, not much love is being shown towards them as they sit in Newport, resembling trash in a wrecking yard.
Some of the trams have missing headlights and smashed windows. Many are covered in graffiti.
A Public Transport Victoria spokesman said new homes were being sought for the trams, which have been part of Melbourne’s landscape for at least 85 years.
“PTV and VicTrack are in the process of identifying groups and parties who may be interested in securing retired trams for display in museums or for heritage purposes,” the spokesman said.
Melbourne’s treasured fleet of green and gold W-class trams are now also popping up in people’s garages as they try to hold on to an era.
One man bought his tram for $150.
The number of disused trams stored at the Newport workshop is growing as more are taken off the rails despite $8 million allocated to preserve some of the mothballed fleet.
There have been some safety fears over the ageing trams.
One caught fire in 2009.
And in a report from Transport Reporter, John Masanauskas, published on 29 November 2001:
HUNDREDS of Victoria's historic trams are rotting away in a forgotten graveyard.
Up to 200 of the world-famous vehicles that once criss-crossed Melbourne have been left derelict at an old Newport workshop.
Trams painted by renowned artists, including Clifton Pugh and Lin Onus, and a restored cable car from the 1880s are among the dilapidated treasures.
Many of the grime-covered trams are now home to pigeons, possums and foxes.
Successive State Governments have failed to resolve the fate of this surplus rolling stock, despite the trams' tourist potential.
Enthusiasts point to the popularity of Melbourne W-class trams now running on tourist routes in US cities including Seattle, San Francisco, New Orleans and Memphis. Lord Mayor John So and ex-premier Sir Rupert Hamer have called for historic trams to be protected, with some activists calling for a tram
museum.
"I love the Melbourne trams - they are part of this city's history and charm, especially our old W-class trams," Cr So said.
"It would be a wonderful trip down memory lane to be able to re-visit some of them," Cr So said. The Herald Sun has also learned that the city's current W-class trams will not begin returning to main routes for up to six
months.
This is almost two years after the 53-tram fleet was removed from the system for brake repairs.
A handful of the trams are back on the free City Circle service.
But the tram union, user groups and the State Opposition claim the private operators want to axe the remaining W-class fleet.
Most trams at the Newport workshop are discarded W-class stock. Also forgotten is a Bondi tram and an 1888 cable car that ran between North Carlton and St Kilda.
Dozens of old tram motors, bogies and historic signs litter the huge workshop.
Tram union secretary Lou Di Gregorio said the state of the trams was a disgrace.
"We have been talking about a museum for years, but nothing has been done," he said.
"We have a great culture and a museum would be very popular."
Connies Coalition spokesman Roberto D'Andrea said a museum could be built at the Preston workshops, which also has surplus trams.
But Public Transport Users Association president Paul Mees said most of the disused trams should be returned to service.
Transport Minister Peter Batchelor admitted the state of the trams was unacceptable.
"The previous government thought the matter had been resolved if it just put them in a big warehouse and slid the door shut," he said.
He said he had commissioned a study to identify heritage transport assets and recommend options for their use. He would not commit to a tram museum before seeing the report.
Redone First Done Back In 2011...Now Deleted...Topps Tiles Has New Windows... Seen In Both Photos Just About Is The Elizabethan School Built In 1855 And Now Is KYN A Luxury Care Home...Hurlingham Park Is On The Left....
Occasionally touching base with the Melbourne tram scene in hindsight of my some 18 years in Melbourne before returning to NZ in November 1996, a view of the Christmas tram now working the City Circle line in the Melbourne CBD captured by Mal Rowe at the Preston Workshops yard on 26/11/2015.
SW6.866 entered service in 1941 and has been the Advertising Christmas tram "Merry Christmas Melbourne" since Thursday, 26th November 2015.
LOADED ONLINE SURVEY SUGGESTS MELBOURNE W-CLASS TRAMS COULD BE SCRAPPED
Herald Sun, November 24, 2015
Melbourne's iconic W-class City Circle trams could be on track for the scrapheap.
The Herald Sun has obtained a Public Transport Victoria online survey filled with loaded statements and questions before quizzing punters on if they knew what a W-class trams was, how they felt about them, the impact they have on the network, how passengers would feel if they were taken off tracks and replaced with modern trams.
“W-class trams can have negative effects on the tram network, including slower operating speeds, longer boarding/alighting times, occupying space in depots essential to the operation of newer tram fleets,” one statement reads before asking those filling out the survey to agree or disagree with a range of statements about the tram.
Respondents were also asked to best describe the W-class trams and phrases provided were noisy, not worth upkeep costs, a burden on Melbourne’s roads and tram network, great for tourists but not Melburnians, outdated, cultural icon, should be retired to a museum and uniquely Melbourne.
Of the suggested phrases, eight were negative while only two were positive.
Passengers are offered a free ride around the City Circle loop and through the Docklands on the popular tourist tram — running on 12-minute intervals.
Its popularity with locals and visitors leads to about 3.3 million passenger trips each year.
Opposition Public Transport spokesman David Hodgett accused the government of “laying the groundwork” to remove the 15 trams from Melbourne’s network and consign them to “Daniel’s dustbin”.
“If Labor’s sneaky bid to remove W-class trams from Melbourne’s streets succeeds, tourists will have to travel to cities such as Bendigo, San Francisco and Seattle to experience an operating W-class tram,” Mr Hodgett said.
But PTV spokesman Nicholas White said there were no plans to remove W-class trams from service.
“While we are progressively modernising the tram network with new trams that have larger capacity, low-floors, and modern comforts such as air-conditioning, PTV is also committed to maintaining a heritage presence where possible, around Melbourne’s CBD,” he said.
He said the research was conducted in a bid to get passengers’ thoughts on trams to improve services and “to understand how people want iconic W-class trams to be used in the future”.
Many of the W-class trams have been left to rot in the Newport repair yard with missing lights, broken windows and graffiti covering many of the green and gold coloured trams.
A cash-splash of $8 million was allocated in 2011 to restore eight of the famous trams.
Three trams have been refurbished and a fourth is expected to begin trudging next year.
Around the corner from Putney Bridge Station.
"Hello, do you have any books?" "Sorry, we're out of stock!"
W6.976 & SW6 collision, Friday, 7 September 1990: In Wattletree Rd at Glenferrie Rd, Malvern. W6.976, inbound from Malvern Burke Rd, having taken the curve hit SW6.880, outbound, the aftermath snapped in this view by noted Melbourne gunzel, Jeff Bounds.
See Previous Photo...The Half Way House Pub..On The Corner Of Caroline Walk Once `Place`...The Pub Stood For Over 100 Years Before Closing In 2013...Its Now A Co-op...
SW6.909 of 1945 in a special Tattersalls sponsored Australian Day livery in Spring St. for Australia Day 2006, snapped by local tram gunzel Mal Rowe.
In reminiscing on my Melbourne years (1978-1996) on Australia Day 2016, it was during those years that tram tracks were laid along Spring St. from the Bourke St. corner to Flinders St. as part of the City circle tramway that turned out to be the last bastion of W class operation.
In August 2014, SW6.909 was transferred from Preston Workshops Depot to Newport Workshops Depot to join the mothball fleet there. It ended its service life as part of the City Circle fleet.
As well, 10 years on and there seems to have been little Melbourne tramway recognition of Australia's national day since this outing by No. 909.
LOADED ONLINE SURVEY SUGGESTS MELBOURNE W-CLASS TRAMS COULD BE SCRAPPED
Herald Sun, November 24, 2015
Melbourne's iconic W-class City Circle trams could be on track for the scrapheap.
The Herald Sun has obtained a Public Transport Victoria online survey filled with loaded statements and questions before quizzing punters on if they knew what a W-class trams was, how they felt about them, the impact they have on the network, how passengers would feel if they were taken off tracks and replaced with modern trams.
“W-class trams can have negative effects on the tram network, including slower operating speeds, longer boarding/alighting times, occupying space in depots essential to the operation of newer tram fleets,” one statement reads before asking those filling out the survey to agree or disagree with a range of statements about the tram.
Respondents were also asked to best describe the W-class trams and phrases provided were noisy, not worth upkeep costs, a burden on Melbourne’s roads and tram network, great for tourists but not Melburnians, outdated, cultural icon, should be retired to a museum and uniquely Melbourne.
Of the suggested phrases, eight were negative while only two were positive.
Passengers are offered a free ride around the City Circle loop and through the Docklands on the popular tourist tram — running on 12-minute intervals.
Its popularity with locals and visitors leads to about 3.3 million passenger trips each year.
Opposition Public Transport spokesman David Hodgett accused the government of “laying the groundwork” to remove the 15 trams from Melbourne’s network and consign them to “Daniel’s dustbin”.
“If Labor’s sneaky bid to remove W-class trams from Melbourne’s streets succeeds, tourists will have to travel to cities such as Bendigo, San Francisco and Seattle to experience an operating W-class tram,” Mr Hodgett said.
But PTV spokesman Nicholas White said there were no plans to remove W-class trams from service.
“While we are progressively modernising the tram network with new trams that have larger capacity, low-floors, and modern comforts such as air-conditioning, PTV is also committed to maintaining a heritage presence where possible, around Melbourne’s CBD,” he said.
He said the research was conducted in a bid to get passengers’ thoughts on trams to improve services and “to understand how people want iconic W-class trams to be used in the future”.
Many of the W-class trams have been left to rot in the Newport repair yard with missing lights, broken windows and graffiti covering many of the green and gold coloured trams.
A cash-splash of $8 million was allocated in 2011 to restore eight of the famous trams.
Three trams have been refurbished and a fourth is expected to begin trudging next year (2016).
Over In Fulham Once The Old Nat West Bank...But A Surgery On The End....And Now The Fulham Medical Centre....Twynholm Baptist Church On The Extreme Left ....And The Vanished Half Way House Pub On The Extreme Right...
Dating back to my Melbourne years (1978-1996), a view of SW6 class tram 862 at the St. Georges Rd./Miller St. corner with SW6.872 to the right on a transporter being taken away for storage, probably at the Newport Workshops.
SW6.862 was eventually to suffer a similar fate and in August 2014, it was transferred from Preston Workshops Depot, where it had been part of the ready reserve fleet (since being retired from service), to the Newport Workshops. Understand it finished its service life as a City Circle tram.
Photo by Ray Marsh/Wayne Duncan collection.
LOADED ONLINE SURVEY SUGGESTS MELBOURNE W-CLASS TRAMS COULD BE SCRAPPED
Herald Sun, November 24, 2015
Melbourne's iconic W-class City Circle trams could be on track for the scrapheap.
The Herald Sun has obtained a Public Transport Victoria online survey filled with loaded statements and questions before quizzing punters on if they knew what a W-class trams was, how they felt about them, the impact they have on the network, how passengers would feel if they were taken off tracks and replaced with modern trams.
“W-class trams can have negative effects on the tram network, including slower operating speeds, longer boarding/alighting times, occupying space in depots essential to the operation of newer tram fleets,” one statement reads before asking those filling out the survey to agree or disagree with a range of statements about the tram.
Respondents were also asked to best describe the W-class trams and phrases provided were noisy, not worth upkeep costs, a burden on Melbourne’s roads and tram network, great for tourists but not Melburnians, outdated, cultural icon, should be retired to a museum and uniquely Melbourne.
Of the suggested phrases, eight were negative while only two were positive.
Passengers are offered a free ride around the City Circle loop and through the Docklands on the popular tourist tram — running on 12-minute intervals.
Its popularity with locals and visitors leads to about 3.3 million passenger trips each year.
Opposition Public Transport spokesman David Hodgett accused the government of “laying the groundwork” to remove the 15 trams from Melbourne’s network and consign them to “Daniel’s dustbin”.
“If Labor’s sneaky bid to remove W-class trams from Melbourne’s streets succeeds, tourists will have to travel to cities such as Bendigo, San Francisco and Seattle to experience an operating W-class tram,” Mr Hodgett said.
But PTV spokesman Nicholas White said there were no plans to remove W-class trams from service.
“While we are progressively modernising the tram network with new trams that have larger capacity, low-floors, and modern comforts such as air-conditioning, PTV is also committed to maintaining a heritage presence where possible, around Melbourne’s CBD,” he said.
He said the research was conducted in a bid to get passengers’ thoughts on trams to improve services and “to understand how people want iconic W-class trams to be used in the future”.
Many of the W-class trams have been left to rot in the Newport repair yard with missing lights, broken windows and graffiti covering many of the green and gold coloured trams.
A cash-splash of $8 million was allocated in 2011 to restore eight of the famous trams.
Three trams have been refurbished and a fourth is expected to begin trudging next year (2016).
It was reported on 25 December 2014 that with the start of the holiday season timetable Green W class use ceased on Route 30 that morning. (Route 30 was the last Melbourne route to operate the Ws.)
881 and 907 were the last cars in service and have been placed into storage at Southbank thus ending the career of these machines.
Some 10 W class of 6/7 and W8 types remain in use on the City Circle for the time being. Some have changed livery from Green to City Circle within this time and or modified to become food carts!
The current status of the former 53 modified W class is as follows (with the exception of one or two):
728 - Painted City Circle - Scrapped/Sold to Bendigo Tramways
842 - Stripped for parts after major collision - Stored outside at Newport Workshops on the ground
845 - Stored Preston Workshops
846 - Stored Preston Workshops
848 - Stored Newport Oct 14' in poor condition after years of storage at PWS
852 - Stored Malvern Depot
854 - Stored Camberwell Depot
855 - Sold to Ballarat Tramway Museum for spare parts
856 - Painted City Circle - In service
862 - Stored at Newport Workshops Oct 14' on ground outside - stripped for parts - moved to clear PWS of junk
864 - Stored at Newport Workshops Oct 14' Never reentered service after brake issues in 2000 (modified and not used)
866 - Painted City Circle - In service
869 - Stored at Newport Oct 14' Caught fire at Nth Richmond and never repaired
870 - Last W class to operate at Glenhuntly - Remains stored at that depot
881 - Last revenue W class to operate - Stored at Southbank Depot
884 - Stored Preston Workshops
888 - In service City Circle
892 - Stored Nth Fitzroy Depot
896 - Stored ??? location unknown
905 - Stored Malvern Depot
907 - Stored Southbank Depot
909 - Stored at Newport in Oct 14' - without bogies stripped for parts
925 - In service City Circle
928 - In service City Circle
929 - Stored at Nth Fitzroy
932 - Stored at Newport - Partly Stripped without bogies
935 - Returned to service as Restaurant car ex green W class
938 - In service as Resturant car ex green W class
946 - Converted to W8 class
953 - Sold to Ballarat Tramway Museum after collision for spare parts
954 - Stored North Fitzroy - held for W8 Project
957 - Undergoing W8 restoration at Bendigo
960 - Stored at Glenhuntly or Malvern?
961 - in service on City Circle
964 - In service as Resturant car converted from Green W class
971 - Stored Malvern Depot
977 - Stored Glenhuntly depot
981 - In service City Circle
982 - Stored Preston Workshops
983 - The tram with nine lives! - In service as a city circle tram after numerous times on the chopping block
992 - Stored at Preston Workshops
1000 - In service City Circle
1005 - Stored Glenhuntly Depot
1010 - In heavy car ahead - Sent to Bendigo for W8 project
1012 - Stored At Nth Fitzroy
1015 - Stored at Newport Workshops on it's own trucks but in poor condition
1019 - Stored Glenhuntly
1020 - In service City Circle
1021 - Repaired after heavy collision in 2008 but never returned to service - stripped for parts now at Newport
1022 - Held for W8 Project at PWS but car ahead damaged
1027 - Stored at Newport Workshops on the ground - In poor condition
1031 - Stored Glenhuntly
1039 - Sold to Ballarat Tramway Museum for preservation - damaged in heavy accident - Oct 14, to be repaired.