Article - TRAMWAYS IN GLEN EIRA

Historical information

Contains 9 items:
1/ 9-Typed pages from Keith Stodden, dated 03/09/2004, Trams in Glen Eira (Caulfield) – A Time Line History’ contributing his list of tram routes in Glen Eira from 1920-1970 and 1970-2004. It lists opening and conversion dates and a detailed time-line from 1888 through 1995, of tram lines in Glen Eira (12-page handwritten original at rear). The first typed page includes a note dated 03/09/2004 from Keith to Friends at the Society.
2/ 2-typed pages ’Trams in Glen Eira’, by Keith Stodden, dated 27/05/2004, briefly describing tram routes in Glen Eira. Included is Mr Stodden’s handwritten original (2 pages).
3/ Page from unnamed Melbourne newspaper (hand-dated December 1895 in pen) with advertisement for tendering for lease of property for Caulfield Tramway.
4/ ’Our Tramways’, photocopy of cutting from unnamed newspaper, hand dated 1913, about recent developments on Melbourne tramways.
5/ Photocopy: ’Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, location of cars at end of 28 day period, 16 June 1928’, typed listing by tram depot (2 pages); ‘Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, location of cars at end of 28 day period, 9 June 1934’, listing by tram depot (2 pages); ‘Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, location of cards at end of financial year, 30 June 1938’, listing by depot (2 pages). Some handwritten notes on pages.
6/ ’Glenhuntly Road’, cutting from Southern Cross newspaper, dated 14/05 but without the year (perhaps 1980?), with brief history of Glenhuntly Road and photograph of first electric tram there, April 1913.
7/ Flyer (2 pages) for ‘The Tramway Society of Victoria Ltd’, about the history of the Society (undated).
8/ ’Caulfield Conservation Study-Tramways Reservation-Dandenong Road’, photocopied description (5 pages) of reservations in the centre of Dandenong Road, with photographs. Assessment and one photograph dated March 1994.

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