Historical information

The extract titled "When Electricity and Trams came to Ballarat" provides some stories of the early days of tramway operations, including the Sebastopol line and horse trams, a water chute at Lake Wendouee, crew wages, working conditions, windscreens. Written by A W Walker

Significance

Yields stories about the early days of electric trams in Ballarat and horse trams to Sebastopol.

Physical description

Two sheets of paper, including a carbon copy of a typed extract from SEC Magazine Feb-Apr 1951 titled "When Electricity and Trams came to Ballarat"