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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noisy, not worth upkeep costs, a burden on Melbourne’s roads and tram network, great for tourists but not Melburnians, outdated, cultural icon, should be retired to a museum and uniquely Melbourne.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).
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.
Dating back to my Melbourne years (1978-1996), a view of 1945 SW6.900 captured from the roof of the entranceway to the Princes Bridge station (which has now been consigned to history) as the tram cuts a solitary sight at the Flinders St./Swanton St. corner on 28.3.1992, the day that the section of Swantston St. from Flinders St. to La Trobe St. was closed to through traffic to be 'pedestianised' as part of the Swanston St. Walk project. Nowadays No.900 has been preserved as part of the PTC Heritage Fleet.
Swanston Street was redeveloped in 1992 between Flinders and La Trobe Streets, roughly half its length, as part of the pedestrianisation of the throughfare dubbed the Swanston St. Walk, with a number of public sculptures being established through the Percent for Art Program. The most famous of these statues is of a small bronze dog called Larry La Trobe by Melbourne artist, Pamela Irving.
The street was closed to vehicular traffic on 28 March 1992.
It was to be a scenario of something similar that occurred in 1985, when Swanston Street was closed and temporarily grassed for a weekend as part of the State of Victoria's 150th birthday celebrations.
An article in the Age had this to say about that:
"For a weekend in 1985, 11,000 square metres of grass was laid along Swanston Street from Flinders Street to La Trobe Street for Victoria's 150th birthday celebrations, dubbed the Swanston Street Summer Party, over the weekend of 9-10 February, 1985. The car-free experiment helped citizens see the city in a new way."
It was done by the State Government as part of Victoria’s 150th year celebrations and attracted about 200,000 people, it looked and felt great and most importantly it made the city smell like earthy grass. This wasn’t some dinky little experiment either, it stretched all the way down the hill from La Trobe St. to Flinders St.
A YouTube video clip on the “greening” of Swanston St. in 1985:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsKVjCr5dQ&app=desktop
By the turn of the 21st century, the street carried nine tram routes, with the frequency of trams being the highest in Melbourne.
Swanston Street was one of the busiest roads in Melbourne, carrying large private automobile volumes, before being converted to a restricted traffic strip in 1992.
The street was made partially car-free, with limited exemptions for small freight, buses and private automobiles during certain times of the day.
Since the 1990s, proposals for the street to become entirely car-free have continuously gained support and momentum.
In November 2008, newly elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle proposed to return private vehicle traffic to the street.
The move attracted opposition from the Public Transport Users Association, Australian Greens and Bicycle Victoria. This proposal was rejected and by January 2010, plans to make the entire length of Swanston Street in the city car-free, were announced by the Lord Mayor himself, representing a complete reversal on the issue.
On 27 January 2010, it was announced that the entire length of Swanston Street would become car-free. The $25.6 million proposal included plans for several city squares along the street and several large tram stops.
Aside from trams, the only motorised vehicular access is for small-scale freight at certain times, and emergency vehicles. The construction program commenced in late 2011 and was completed in late 2012.
Another Minder Shot..First Aired In 1979`Incredible...Heres Terry And Arthur On The Steps Of Fulham Police Station...Sadly Being Demolished It Closed On 14-12-17...
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....
I.D.s 421 & 00351 photographed by John Ward on 1971-04-12 using a 35mm camera producing a colour positive in slide format and then scanned and digitized.
Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board SW6 class tram 872 on Route 55 West Coburg Via William Street on reserve track near Royal Park Zoo at Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Arriva London/The Shires (SW6, LK16 BYG, Garston/St Albans Road (GR)-based) at Harrow Bus Station, College Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, London. Body no AN196, delivered new 16/07/2016 via Heysham Docks. Apologies for the mark on the left hand side of the photo, caused by a clump of sensor dust that got into one of the filters in my camera lens.
Ex-New York Central SW8. The flatcar is used to pick up Christmas trees selected by participants at the Paradise Christmas Tree lot. December 5, 2020. © 2020 Peter Ehrlich
SW6 852
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shipped in 2015 to Auckland:
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Reconstructed model of the Abbey by N J W Gaffney as it may have appeared in 1539.
Pitkin Pictorial Postcards published by Topical Press Ltd., 11 Wyfold Road, London, SW6.
Postally unused.
I.D.s 1091 & 04100 photographed by John Ward on the date of 1963-05-17 using a 35mm size camera and employing black and white roll film. Subsequently scanned and digitized
Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board P.C.C. (President's Conference Car) tram 980 showing Route 96 City-Spencer Street heads into the single track section at Hawker Avenue on its way to the terminus in Plenty Road at Tyler Street, East Preston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Tram SW6 No 1000 also on Route 88 City-Spencer Street waits for its chance to enter the single track section whilst another tram is further away heading towards the City.
Continuing From The Previous Photo..Zammo The Leader Seen here `Now In His Fifties!.....Classic Grange Hill Series 7....Comeragh Road The Only One In The UK.....A Flat At No 32 Was Sold For £520,000 In 2019...Just Say No!...Charing Cross Hospital Just Visible In The Rear...Note The Abandoned Christmas Trees...
Nostalgia from my Melbourne years (1978-1996), inbound No. 944 snapped turning from Miller St. into St. Georges Rd. in Preston near the Preston Workshops where it would eventually finish up being stored once withdrawn from service, where, as at October 2010, it was part of the ready reserve fleet.
SW6.944: In service 1949. Worked from Hawthorn, Glen Huntly and Preston depots, and apparently now currently stored at Newport Workshops along with many other trams of the W class fleet.
Tram: SW6.944
In Service: Thursday, 20th October 1949
Current Status: Stored
Operator: PTC (Ready Reserve)
Allocated Depot: Preston Workshops
Livery: MMTB Green and Cream
History and Events for SW6.944
1958
May O2 Overhaul
1962
December O3 Overhaul
1964
September O1 Overhaul
1971
January Headlights and Brake/Tail light units fitted to aprons
1983
May Livery changed to MET Green and Yellow
September O3 Overhaul
Why are most of the W class trams now 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. 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.
Scanned from Trolley Wire, August/September 2009, 1946 Melbourne tram No. 916 snapped by Ian Green on 7 August 2009 at Lou Arthur's transport depot in Footscray on the first stage of its journey to San Francisco where it arrived on 16/9/2009 and is now used in regular service on the F Market & Wharves line.
Tram No. 916, of the SW6 subclass, entered service in Melbourne on June 21, 1946. The most visible advance over the earlier W class designs (such as Muni’s W2 tram No. 496) was the installation of sliding doors in the center section, keeping the car far warmer in winter (Melbourne’s climate is similar to San Francisco’s).
Lewis Hall cuts in from the wing and bursts past Kieran Trippier and Miguel Almirón.
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SW6 tram 918, in a striking Dja Dja Wurrung scheme painted by a local indigenous artist, approaching the Charing Cross stop in central Bendigo.
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There are reports of a pub by this name on this site as early as 1455 & in the 16th century Shakespeare was a visitor.
The original building was demolished & the new Golden Lion built in the 1830s.
In the 1970s the pub had a reputation as a rock pub & was a haunt for Led Zeppelin in their early days & also Emerson, Lake & Palmers Manticore Studios were close by in a old cinema & they & associated acts used the pub.
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