Yields information about the history of electric tramcars in Ballarat and their backgrounds.Eight pages of notes, listings of Electric tram stock in Ballarat - dated 1939 and 1941, detailing building, providing details, scrapping dates, updated to 1947, coloured destination discs, notes re specific trams, seating capacity, summer trams, Sebastopol cars, horse tram trailers, ESCo trams. Contained within Reg Item 5485 - Service Exercise Book, black covers, with label, red binding titled "No. 2 - Ballarat Tramways & S.E.C. Systems". trams, tramways, ballarat, esco, sec, destination indicators, tramcars

ticketDemonstrates a variety of Ballarat Tourist Tramway tickets, and a special night school ticket, all used by Ballarat Tramways.Assorted Ballarat Tourist Tramway tickets. The tickets have a value of 5c and 10c. Special Night School Ticket.tickets, tramways, ballarat tramways, ballarat tramway museum

Rubber stamp and wood stamp holder for stamping the words "Ballarat Tramways" on letters and other documents. Consists of red painted wood stamp holder and black plastic handle with black "drawing pin" to indicate the top of the stamp. trams, tramways, btps, letters, btm

Colour print showing two of the SEC tramway timetable boards, that was located at the City Tramway centre on display on the end of tram 39 before the construction of an entry into the Museum display.Demonstrates methods used to display information at the Museum during 1994. Colour photograph print on Fujichrome paper.museum, timetable boards, tram 39

Colour print showing the installation of the wooden shelter at Gardens Loop by the Museum prior to the installation of the interpretative board in the shelter. The shelter was subsequently replaced by the Council with a new structure.Yields information about the shelter installed by the Museum at Gardens Loop during 1994. Colour photograph print on Fujichrome paper.museum, shelter, gardens loop, shelters

Yields information about the age and profile of Ballarat tramway workforce., Yields information about the age and profile of Ballarat tramway workforce.Memorandum to the Engineer & Manager from the Ballarat Manager, on green paper - with rounded corners, titled "Ballarat Tramways - Personnel", advising the staff and wages personnel engaged full time on tramway duties, the number who are married and the number over the age of 60. Dated 22/3/1962. trams, tramways, personnel, staff, ballarat, employees

Part 1 - Ballarat Horse Trams - notes that much of the details was supplied by the late Inspector James. Part 2 - Electric Trams - gives dates for the withdrawal of the ESCo cars, routes, SEC and extensions, including the Forest City signals. 11 pages of a typed article or research report on foolscap paper titled "History of Ballarat Tramways - 1887 - 1953", written by Wal Jack, Gestetner printed. With the file is a set of A3 size laminated photocopies, provided by the donor. See also Reg Item 6419 for another copy.trams, tramways, sec, esco, ballarat, sec, horse trams, tramcars

Yields information about ESCo Ballarat transfer tickets and how they were used.Ballarat Tramways, ESCo, Transfer 3d ticket - A 3728. Has conditions of use, location boarded on Up or Down, time, day of week around edges of ticket. Has been punched. Printed on heavy paper. Printed in black in on off white paper and over printed 3d in purple ink.trams, tramways, tickets, esco, transfer tickets

Part 1 - Ballarat Horse Trams - notes that much of the details was supplied by the late Inspector James. Part 2 - Electric Trams - gives dates for the withdrawal of the ESCo cars, routes, SEC and extensions, including the Forest City signals. Notes assistance of Mr Hornabrook, Farr, Linaker, Hodgson and Lyons. See also Reg Item 8005 for another copy and a set of A3 size laminated photocopies.Yields information about the history of the Ballarat tramways as researched and known in 1953 by Wal Jack.Photocopy - 11 pages of a typed article or research report on foolscap paper titled "History of Ballarat Tramways - 1887 - 1953", written by Wal Jack. Second copy - Gestetner printed - 10 pages only, from a donation of Ruth Nelson - rescanned with word recognition pdf. Last page scanned and added to this file, but may not be word recognisable.In pencil on the last sheet "The original of the information was loaned to me to have this copy made by Mr. W. L. Edwards of Beverin St Sebastopol 3356 - copy made 23/5/1972. Second - copy some dates on front sheet circled and paragraphs highlighted on other pages.trams, tramways, sec, esco, ballarat, sec, horse trams, tramcars

Graph showing " Ballarat Tramways Annual Statistics" from 1934 to 1960 - showing millions of passengers, revenue and expenditure with notes on an extension to Lydiard St North cemetery, a full year of conductor operation, defence camp in full operation, fourty hour week, 1949 fare increase, also 1951 and 1955 and 1952 roster with 67 men.Yields information about Ballarat's revenue and expenditure and passenger numbers.Graph hand made on printed 1/10th of inch graph paper with rounded corners.tramways, tramcars, secv, statistics, fare increases, annual reports, passengers

Document or report dated October 1962, outlining the history of the Ballarat Tramways tram tracks, rail replacement, extensions, type of construction, present condition, eg Sebastopol, notes on photos which are not included within the report, including point castings and crossings, issues and recommending that the track is rehabilitated. Refers to a drawing with 7 rail cross sections - see image 2, for VB4/40.Yields information about the condition of the Ballarat Tramways track in Oct. 1962Document - memo - typed carbon copy on 3 foolscap sheets and dyeline printed drawing.tramways, trackwork, ballarat, reports, track materials, stringer tram tracks, tram track construction

Yields information about a Civic Function at the time of the closure of the tramways and method of invitations. Invitation or letter on quarto paper, dated 13/9/1971 from the City of Ballaarat to Mr. R. Prentice to a Civic Function at the Town Hall to mark the closure of the Ballarat Tramway system and to welcome the newly appointed SEC Chairman, Mr. N. R. White. Mayor Cr Chisholm and Mayor of Sebastopol Cr N F Donald. Addressed to Mr. R PrenticeOn rear in red ink "Max Scott". The invitee's name has been hand written.trams, tramways, civic functions, city of ballaarat, closure, sec

Yields information about the Ballarat Tramways during the second world war. Photocopy of original.Six page photocopy extract of CHHA Journal Vol. 3 1995, of cover, cover pages, p33-41, featuring an article by Alan Bradley titled "Ballarat Tramways' at War". Front page copied full size, inside pages reduced to fit 2 pages to a single sheet. Features four photos. Record review, images added 19/10/2013trams, tramways, secv, ballarat, conductresses, world war ii, chha.

The article provides historical and then current information about the Ballarat system, including operations and car details. The author notes the assistance of Inspection James. Features a photo of an electric tram towing a well loaded horse tram trailer in Sturt St.Gives a short history of Ballarat's tramways.Photocopy of an article written by Wal Jack for the November 25, 1939 issue of Transportation on page 28, titled "Ballarat Electric Tramways, Past and Present". trams, tramways, ballarat, wal jack, articles, transportation

Demonstrates arrangements made by the TMSV to record the closure of the SEC Ballarat system in 1971 and has a strong association with the donor's activities at the time.Set of five tickets contained within an envelope titled "Tickets used on the last runs of the Mt Pleasant & Gardens via Sturt St runs of the Ballarat Tramways". Noted that it was tram 39, driver No. 11 and Conductor 31 on Sunday 5/9/1971 Describes each ticket, with number and use.. Contains one 5c City Section, two 13c, one 4c and 1 7c. See image for details. trams, tramways, mt pleasant, sturt st west, tickets, closure

Yields information about the Ballarat overhead, track layouts, terminals and the Sebastopol type cars.Three hand written foolscap pages with notes on the Ballarat Tramways overhead, the Sebastopol tramcars axle boxes, double ended sidings at Victoria St and Lydiard St North, possible track extensions, Viewpoint terminus, Forest City signs, View Point Loop and Bridge St relaying in 1957. Contained within Reg Item 5507 - Foolscap binder with green covers, black binding edge and metal clips. overhead, terminus, view point, signals, sebastopol type

Yields information about the supplier of the original track in Ballarat for electric trams and the extent of the work Hadfields undertook in providing curves, not just pointwork.Illustration from Hadfields Ltd of Sheffield, of the "Special Curves for the Ballarat Tramways". T Grenville St end of Sturt St. From page 9A of a catalogue publication of Hadfields held by the Wellington Tramway Museum, New Zealand. Shows the curves laid out in Hadfields yard. btm3679i - image of the printed version. Full size pdf copy held - filed as "Hadfields pic Ballarat Trackwork - btm3679i" on the high resolution image file.trams, tramways, trackwork, sturt st, hadfields, pointwork, grenville st

Rubber stamp and wood stamp holder for use on official opening day for trams operated by the BTPS. Rubber casting with words "Ballarat Tramway Official Re-opening 1st February 1975". Red wood stamp hold and black wood handle with black direction pin. Second one added 17/09/2009 along with SEC stamps at the same time - btm352i1. See Reg item 4776 and 6430 for sample tickets stampedtrams, tramways, btps, reopening, ballarat tourist tramway, opening, tickets

Provides a detailed map of Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo tram lines - dated 23-9-1969. Shows street names, depot locations, depot layouts, track details including an insert for Sturt St Ballarat and destination locations. Provides a scale for each system. Not known who prepared the drawing.Yields information about the three operable Victorian systems at the date of preparation.Printed - dyeline? map on a folded sheet of papermap, melbourne, ballarat, bendigo, tramways, diagram

Yields information about timetable for tram services in Ballarat for May 1956 and what routes were operated.Duplicated foolscap sheet titled "Ballarat Tramways - Revised Time Table as from Monday 14th May, 1956". Date of issue one side with the other side providing details of service for Week days, Saturdays and Sundays on the Sebastopol, Grey St, Lydiard St North, Victoria St, Mt Pleasant, Gardens via Drummond St, Haddon St, Gardens via Sturt St West, Sturt St West and View Point. Document headed :"State Electricity Commission of Victoria"ballarat, timetables, services

Manuscript titled "The Tramways of Ballarat", prepared by Keith Kings during 1964 based on the text in the last paragraph. Provides a short history of Ballarat, the construction and operation of the horse tram system, the take over and construction of the electric tramways by the Electric Supply Co. of Victoria, and operation of horse tram trailers. Includes the takeover by the SEC, replacement tramcars, Lydiard St Nth extension, exchange of cars with Bendigo, Geelong, attempts to close the system and operations during the mid 1960s.Yields information about the history of Ballarat Tramways written in 1964. Has a strong association with the author who prepared a larger work when the tram system closed in 1971.Manuscript titled - The Tramways of Ballarat - four foolscap typed pages, carbon copy.Has a number of corrections to the text.ballarat, trams, tramways, manuscript, history, horse trams, esco, sec, tramcars, ballarat tramways

ill, maps, p.64.non-fictionA short illustrated history of the Ballarat tramways in Victoria.electric trams - australia - history, tramways - ballarat

Ill, maps, p.80.non-fictionA book on the history of Ballarats trams. Includes a photograph of each tram and a brief history of the line.tramways - ballarat, trams - ballarat - history

Yields information about the SEC Ballarat depot staffing between 1969 and 1971 and has a strong association with them.List - A4 sheet titled - "Ballarat Tramways Depot Staff" prepared by Wayne Kell. Lists Foreman, Leading Hand, Controller Maintenance, Tram Mechanics, Pitman, Car Cleaners, Carpenters and Painters and Points Maintenance person. Two copies - one on a white sheet and one on a yellow sheet. Stan Lakey Dan Irvine Bert Peart Ted Davis Harry van Oorschot George Grey Norm Lorensini Austin Domaschenz Way Kell Max Devlin Ned Romeo Jack Marone Adam Balloch George Etheridge Les North Ted Fishsec, depot, workshops, tram tracks, employees, tramcar operations

Historically significant for at the time it demonstrated aspects of the evolution of Ballarat Tramways and yields information about the formation of the tramways, the Councils viewpoint and has a strong association with the Mayor of the time.Twenty two page book, produced by photocopying, side stapled and bound with a red plastic binding, titled "Mayor's Special Report Ballarat Tramways", dated 20 September 1971 for presentation to the City of Ballaarat Council Meeting 27 Sept. 1971 and signed by the Mayor, J.A.Chisholm. Note pages 18 and 19 have been reversed. Comprises: Page 1 - map (image 1829i1) - of Ballarat (Ballaarat) showing the horse tram routes in red (appear to have been drawn in with a red pencil). Note the Sebastopol route terminates at Rubicon St. Page 3 - letter to the City Councillors from the Mayor Page 4 - Outline of the "The Ballarat Tramway System" Pages 5 - 7 - Conditions for tendering the horse tram system within the City of Ballarat" Pages 8 - 11 - Specifications and Agreement for the Ballaarat Tramways (horse trams). pages 12 - 19 - Memorandum of Agreement with the British Insulated Wire Company (later ESCo) Page 20 - Copy of letter from the Secretary of the SEC to the Minister of Fuel and Power, dated 10 Sept. 1971 advising of the formal abandonment of the Ballarat and Bendigo tramway systems. Page 21 - five photos (image 1829i3) of trams in Ballarat, including the bogie tram decorated for the Queens visit, courtesy of Mr. L. J. Denmead, Tramways Superintendent. Page 22 - Plan (image 1829i2) of Ballarat Bus Services, showing route numbers, destinations and existing tramway routes. 3rd copy added 16/7/2010trams, tramways, city of ballaarat, mayor's reports, ballaarat tramway company, british insulated wire company, esco, bus services, sec

Magazine cutting contained within Reg. Item 2488, page 31, titled "History of the Ballarat Tramways" from the Feb. 1939 issue of the "SEC Magazine". Report on a recent paper by H.P. James to the Historical Society about the experimental battery tram in Ballarat in October 1888. Notes that Duncan and Fraser input into the Julien Battery experiment, Mr. Bullimore the electrician and trails and problems with the track. Also has notes regarding tramways in Ballarat East Township. Accompanying the item are handwritten notes about the tramcar used and its fate. Attached in the top left hand corner of the item, sewn in, is a green ESCo 2d token. (See Reg item 1794 and 1943 for details and other samples) Note Item Not formally Numbered. Image btm2494i2 shows position on page relative to items 2494 to 2504Numerous on page 31 in ink and penciltrams, tramways, battery tram, duncan & fraser, trials, ballarat east, esco

ticketDemonstrates a variety of Provincial Tramways tourist tickets used by Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong Tramways.Assorted Ballarat Tramway Tourist tickets with a value of 1/- (pre 1966). The tickets are printed State Electricity Commission of Victoria, with ELECTRICITY SUPPLY COMPANY in bold print. The tickets were produced for the Provincial tramways of Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong. Row 1 of tickets has partitioned sections for Town, Year, Day, Month and Date and are available for one return journey on each route. Row 2 tickets can be nipped for the Town, the date, and a space has been left to hand write the full date. Row 2 tickets also provide a space for the Passenger's signature, and can be used for any route on the given date. The tickets are printed on cream or beige card with dark blue ink used for printing. The tickets are not transferable to another person.Row 1 Ticket 1, the years 1944-1945 and 1946 have been crossed out and replaced with 1947-1948 and 1949, printed over in red ink. Row 2 tickets have a hand written note which reads (issued 1940 - 43 in pencil.tickets, tramways, esco