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Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Set of 7 postcard size photographs - Wattle Park MMTB, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 1960s
Set of 7 photographs, probably by the MMTB of Wattle Park. 1 - Wattle Park Chalet building 2 - ditto - side view 3 - Children's playground area 4 - General view of the footpaths and park 5 - one of the water features 6 - View of some of the buildings. 7 - part of the golf course.Yields information about Wattle Park during the 1960s, which was owned and maintained by the MMTB.Set of 7 black and white photographs.tramways, mmtb, wattle park, golf -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Administrative record - Research and Statistics - Melbourne, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), c1922
Digital image or scan of a document most likely prepared for the 1923 General Scheme for Melbourne Tramways as the statistical background information. See item 2088 for the General Scheme itself. Gives statistical detail for each Melbourne municipality at the time, areas, dwellings, passengers carried, population, route miles of railways and tramways, passenger capacity of the railways, and traffic counts - some of which have been extended to 1925. Demonstrates a statistical document prepared for research purposes and possibly part of the 1923 General Scheme for Tramways in Melbourne.Document - Journal bound in leather with red leather corners, sewn, alphabetical index pages, pages ruled in light blue ink.general scheme, statistics, tramways, railways, population -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), City Saver, early 1980's
City Saver – A79631 - $4.00, printed on blue card with a map of the available CBD area on the back. - has space for 10 punch marks. Gives details of availability. See Reg Item 963 for the check tickets and 955 for a example of a $5.30 ticket.trams, tramways, mta, ticket, city section -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Administrative record - form, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Certificate of Service", 1970s
Form recording a person's employment when leaving the MMTB - gives areas to record the nature of employment, from and to (dates), date of leaving and spaces for signatures. See item 1930 for an example of use for Oscar Turner.Demonstrates a MMTB form used to record a person;s employment.Form - printed quarto sheet No. 3/278tramways, mmtb, forms, certificates, employment -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Set of 3 - Temporary track St Kilda Road, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 1950's
Photographs showing setting up temporary track in St Kilda Road using a mobile crane. One photo shows the temporary connection in the Alexandra Gardens area, late 1950s?Yields information about setting up temporary track in St Kilda Road for major tramway reconstruction.Series of 3 black and white photographs.Some photos have pencil marks on rear.trams, tramways, trackwork, rails, track materials, track repairs, sleepers, equipment, st kilda road -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Travel time contours for travel by tram and train from the central business area", Jul. 1966
... Report Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) ...Report - Foolscap 11 typed pages, 12 bound sheets of diagrams and tables with card covers, with red binding strips, titled ""Travel time contours for travel by tram and train from the central business area", dated July 1966. Looks at journey time for both trams and trains with two speeds - 10mph and 18mph.In top left hand corner "Lees" in penciltrams, tramways, mmtb, tramways, railways, speed of services, travel promotion -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Section to Section trips compiled from information obtained by the Melbourne Metropolitan Transportation Study 1964 Card survey.", Mar. 1967
Report - Foolscap landscape format, red tape binding - approx. 30 pages with notes, diagrams, charts, maps showing passenger traffic for parts of each route. Titled "Section to Section trips compiled from information obtained by the Melbourne Metropolitan Transportation Study 1964 Card survey from tram and bus routes based on the Central Business area of Melbourne". Dated 3/1967. Contains a large fold out map of each route showing passenger numbers for the day.In top right hand corner "Lees" in inktrams, tramways, mmtb, tramways, melbourne, surveys, passengers, maps -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Passenger movements by public transport for the Central city Business area based on results of the 1964 Melbourne Metropolitan Transportation Study, Nov. 1965
Report - Foolscap landscape format, red tape binding - approx. 80 pages with notes, diagrams, charts, maps showing passenger traffic for parts of each route, including Railway Stations, passenger flows, titled "Passenger movements by public transport for the Central city Business area based on results of the 1964 Melbourne Metropolitan Transportation Study.In top right hand corner "Lees" in inktrams, tramways, mmtb, tramways, melbourne, surveys, passengers, railways, maps -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Form/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Work Record for Senior Drivers or Conductors", 10/04/1926 12:00:00 AM
Form - titled "Work Record for Senior Drivers or Conductors" completed by E. Benson on Saturday April 10, 1926, numeral 1114, giving details of shift work, for table 40, cars 121 and 135 working from South Melbourne line. Has space for Office Use, time and remarks. Has not been completed. Has extensive areas for special or altered running, travelling time, student crews, time lost bytrams, tramways, crews, south melbourne, rosters, table cards, forms -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Pamphlet, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), "Light Rail Transit System - Inner Area North - South Link", early 1987
Sixteen page, A4, full colour, printed on gloss paper, centre stapled pamphlet, titled "Light Rail Transit System - Inner Area North - South Link"", describing the proposal for the conversion of the St Kilda and Port Melbourne rail lines to light rail. Undated, Appears to be earlier than May 1987 (See Reg Item 457). Has a foreword by the Minister, Tom Roper, explains the system, shows high platform stops using the Hanover example, development of the project, journey times, costs and saving and two page map of the system, showing a possible extension to Glenhuntly Road. Has the Met contact and logo on the rear. Covers have a perspective view at Port Melbourne Station Pier. See Also Reg Item 457 for a similar pamphlet. 2nd copy added 23-10-2016trams, tramways, minister for transport, metropolitan transit authority, st kilda, port melbourne, light rail -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), "City Saver", mid 1980's
City Saver – A094414 - $5.30, printed on blue card with a map of the available CBD area on the back. - has space for 10 punch marks. Gives details of availability. See Reg Item 963 for the check tickets and 1030 for a example of a $4 ticket.trams, tramways, mta, ticket, city section -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "City Section Concession Card", early 1970's
"City Section Concession Card", MMTB, printed on manila coloured card, 12 trips, each used - ticket No. Ba 256789. Plain back. Gives details of the area of availability - just the main CBD area. Cost $1.00 Five additional examples added 20/9/15 from the donation of Harry Jackson, who has written the tramcar numbers used on the rear of Aa426496. Other tickets - Aa 015460,193098, 339534, 339843,trams, tramways, mmtb, ticket, city section -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "City Section Concession Card", mid 1970's
"City Section Concession Card", MMTB, printed on green card, 8 trips, each used - ticket No. Ba 161872. Plain green back. Gives details of the area of availability - just the main CBD area. Cost $1.trams, tramways, mmtb, ticket, city section -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Drawing, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Area covered by MetroCard Central", Jul. 1980
Sheet (half foolscap?) photocopied, with a map of Melbourne tramway and bus routes drawn on it to show the extent of the ticket known as MetroCard Central. Dated July 1980. Prepared by the Training Section of the MMTB? For more details see http://www.robx1.net/victkt/pre1981/html/1980.htm - accessed 7/11/2018.trams, tramways, melbourne, tickets, mmtb, metrocard -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Digital Photograph, Alan King, Maroondah Aqueduct Siphon Bridge over the Plenty River, 26 January 2008
Opened in 1891, the bridge formed part of the Maroondah Aqueduct carrying water from Watts River near Healesville to the reservoir at Preston where it joined Melbourne's metropolitan water system. Covered under Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then / Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p99 Built to supply thirsty Melbourne in the late 19th century, the siphon bridge spanning the Plenty River off Leischa Court, Greensborough, was part of an engineering masterpiece. Opened in 1891, the bridge formed part of the Maroondah Aqueduct carrying water from the Watts River near Healesville to the reservoir at Preston where it joined the metropolitan distribution system. A major link in Melbourne’s water supply, it also had a huge impact on communities, which mushroomed along its route. Named after the Aboriginal word for the area around the Maroondah Reservoir, the Maroondah Aqueduct was fully operational until the 1970s. Since the 1980s the land along parts of the aqueduct have been used for walking and bicycle riding, shaded in places by Monterey Pine trees planted to stabilise the surrounding ground. From 1857 the Yan Yean Reservoir supplied Melbourne’s water but the growing city needed additional catchments.1 In 1886 work began on a weir on the Watts River to enable the aqueduct to carry most of the river water 41 miles (66km) to Melbourne. The aqueduct, built by the Board of Works, is the oldest remaining aqueduct near Melbourne and was probably the first built with concrete.2 Although the aqueduct is now only used between the Maroondah and Sugarloaf Reservoirs, it can still be traced across the Shire. It extends from the Maroondah Reservoir through Christmas Hills, Kangaroo Ground, Research, Eltham, St Helena and then previously wound west through Greensborough to Reservoir.3 Built by horse and manpower the aqueduct gravity fed 25 million gallons (113.6ML) of water a day to Melbourne along a gradient of one foot to the mile. It included 25 miles (41km) of open concrete and brick channel, six miles (10km) of tunnels, and nine miles (15km) of 14 inverted siphons of riveted wrought-iron across creeks. Bricks for the aqueduct were made from clay found near the sites and remains of several kilns can still be found between Kangaroo Ground and Christmas Hills. Building the aqueduct transformed local communities. An abattoir was established at Christmas Hills. Grog shanties and labourers’ camps sprang up and local courts dealt with cases of ‘petty pilfering and boisterous behaviour’.4 The Kangaroo Ground school population jumped to 91, crammed into a room with one teacher. Miners who built the tunnels camped just north of Churinga in Greensborough – then called Tunnel Hill Camp – and adjacent to the Evelyn Arms Hotel. The miners’ high spirits were sometimes quenched in horse troughs or by a ‘welt under the ear and kick on the behind’ as the local constable calmed them down rather than lock them up.5 But the growing city of Melbourne needed more water, so the O’Shannassy catchment, east of Warburton, was added to the system in 1914. In 1920 work began on the present concrete Maroondah Dam one mile (1.6km) from the weir on the Watts River. The aqueduct capacity was thus doubled to 50 million gallons (227ML) a day.6 Intense land development threatened to pollute the open water supply, so channel sections were replaced with large pipes. In the late 1960s a large water main was built from the tunnel outlet at Research and extended through St Helena and Greensborough, so this section of the aqueduct was taken out of use. Long sections of the unused open channels in Greensborough and Bundoora were destroyed, but the old channel in Research and Eltham North remained largely intact. In the 1970s, the Sugarloaf Reservoir was constructed, inundating 445 hectares of land in Christmas Hills. Sugarloaf was officially opened in 1980 and serves as a water storage and treatment plant supplying Melbourne. In the early 1980s pipes replaced the section from Sugarloaf Reservoir to the tunnel entrance at Kangaroo Ground. The Research-Kangaroo Ground tunnel operates as part of the pipeline system.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, maroondah aqueduct, pipe bridge, siphon bridge -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket - City Saver, The Met, 1988c
Used by The Metropolitan Transport Authority (The Met) to provide a multi-journey trip ticket within a nominated City (CBD) area. Has been used for 10 trips. A check ticket was issued by a conductor for each trip made. Has details of the availability on the rear. Notes that the ticket is available for trams, buses and light rail. Previous issues did not have light rail listed. The light rail to St Kilda and Port Melbourne commenced in Nov. 1987. Has The Met logo on the rear. Demonstrates a multi-use ticket used by The Met in the City area of Melbourne.City Saver –No. 23457 - $5.60 printed on a green card with a map of the available CBD travel area on the back.public transport, tickets, the met, trams, tramways, city saver -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign - Drawing, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Electrical Wiring - diagram of Truck Shop Testing Area
... Sign Drawing - Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) ...Prepared by Preston Workshops staff, in the Truck Shop, to show the electrical apparatus line diagrams for testing of motors in a bogie or truck.Demonstrates the equipment used to test tramcar bogies or trucks prior to fitting to a tramcar.Drawing - dyeline print taped and edged to a piece of masonite. Has two screw holes for mounting on either side.trams, tramcars, bogies, trucks, truck shop, preston workshops, electrical engineering, electrical equipment -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "MMTB Route Numbers - Bus Routes" 1961 & 1962
Provides a list of bus route numbers in 1961 and 1962. The 1962 sheet shows the additional routes following the take over of the bus routes in the Box Hill, Warrandyte and Ringwood areas.Yields information about bus route numbers.Set of two, Gestetner printed lists, foolscap sheets titled "MMTB Bus Routes Numbers". .1 - dated March 1961 - 1 sheet .2 - dated December 1962 - 2 sheetsItem 2 has "Obtained 2 May 1967" along top edge.tramways, trams, mmtb, route numbers, routes, buses -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - MMTB Transfer ticket - Caulfield area, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 1950s
... - Caulfield area Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) ...MMTB paper transfer ticket that was issued by the conductor / or bus driver to enable a transfer between tram and bus services. Has the transfer points or routes listed with the conditions of use listed on the rear. Number C GH E 546278 - issued by the Glen Huntly depot.Yields information about the Transfer tickets used by the Glen Huntly tram depot.Paper flimsy ticket MMTB with purple and black printing.tramways, tickets, melbourne, mmtb, transfer tickets, glen huntly, glenhuntly depot