Document - Historical notes - Box Hill Tramway and other Victorian Tramways

Historical information

.1 - typed notes with the heading "a tablet beside the Box Hill Post Office today marks the terminus" Provides notes on the Box Hill - Doncaster electric tramway of 1888, some historical notes about its operation and closure. Includes notes on Bendigo's battery trams, steam trams, SA's Goolwa to Port Elliot tramway, Fairfield horse tramways and other horse trams.

No information as to who prepared the original document - possibly Bob Prentice.

.2 - an extract from a publication showing the commemorative cairn at the Box Hill terminus and providing some notes on the tramway.

Significance

Yields information about the first Australian electric tramway and other tramways in Victoria.

Physical description

.1 - Foolscap sheet - blue paper, typed notes on the Box Hill - Doncaster Tramway and other Victorian Tramways.
.2 - digital scan of a publication showing the commemorative cairn at Box Hill

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