Original post 11 October 2019, updated 2024

Did you know there was once a tram to Port Melbourne? Well a cable tram anyway. Here’s a pic of a one on Beach Street, near Station Pier. The line opened in 1890 and ran from here, round up Bay Street then City Road, over the new Queensbridge, to Market Street then Collins Street. The nice coloured map is 1887 from the @hawthorndepot showing the planned route. The aerial clearly showing the line is from 1940, and the one of car barn at the terminus is 1970, both pics from Port Melbourne History FB page, as is the first pic, c1920. The only thing left apart from the shopping strip the line encouraged by the line is the #enginehouse on City Road, built 1889, last pic, mine from 2019. Unlike most other lines which were converted to electric trams this one was replaced by a bus in 1937.

The engine house. It’s only a facade (well three walls) cos it had a fire in the 80s (from memory), then rebuilt as offices. And it has a rooftop pool !?

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