Significance

Yields information about the operations of the Ballarat Tramway system prior to closure and some of the tours that were operated.

Physical description

Kodak - Kodachrome slide - cardboard mounts



Tram 26, with destination of City, inbound in Main Road, with Impala Motors and Robson Glass merchants in the background - 5/9/1971 - last day of Mt Pleasant line. See notes

Inscriptions & markings

In ink on slide:

"Sunday 5 Sept. 1971, Approaching Bridge St from Mt. Pleasant, last day of Mt Pl. operation. This car provided, with preceding car No. 27, supplementary service to cater for Vintage train passengers who went to Sovereign Hill. They left City c1250, returned c1.05pm before first usual car. They ran as service cars b/c no specials allowed on last day."