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Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Eight years to clear tram tracks", 22/09/1971

  • "Eight years to clear tram tracks" - part cutting

    "Eight years to clear tram tracks"

  • "Eight years to clear tram tracks" - full cutting

    "Eight years to clear tram tracks" - full cutting

  • "Eight years to clear tram tracks" - part cutting
  • "Eight years to clear tram tracks" - full cutting

Historical information

Titled "Eight years to clear tram tracks", about the time planned to remove tram tracks in Ballarat by the CRB on their roads. Notes agreement with the SEC, mentions the Minister for Fuel and Power Mr. Balfour, cost $1.25million, quotes Mr. Oppy of the CRB. Notes that work on the removal of tracks in Sturt St had commenced this week.
The second cutting includes a photo of a Mr G Hettich saw cutting the road surface - note the use of the term "instruments" in the caption.

Significance

Yields information about the starting of track removal in Sturt St Ballarat and later on in other parts of the system, following closure of the SEC operated system.

Physical description

Newspaper cutting from The Courier, about 22/9/1971, about the removal of track in Ballarat and Bendigo.

Inscriptions & markings

Has the newspaper source on the top edge in ink.

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