Physical description

Ninety six page book stapled with a heavy card cover, saddle stapled, printed on matt paper, titled "Talking Trams" and written by Jan-Werner Hente. Has a number of pages of light manila colour paper stock printed with a sepia ink. Many black and white photographs.



Major Sections include:

Pages 7 - 24 - text as if on a "Talking Tram" tram tour of the Bendigo Trust tram., with relevant photographs.

Pages 26 - 47 - details briefly the history of each tramcar in the fleet at the time and some scrapped trams.

Pages 48 - 49 - map of the route with reference points.

Pages 52 - 69 - "If only all trams could talk" - the story of the trams in Bendigo and its mining history, including horse, battery, steam and electric trams, Victorian Railways impact and some of the personalities of the Bendigo Tramways.

Pages 70 - 92 - the SEC era and closure and the early Bendigo Trust days

Pages 93 - 96 - provides a rolling stock listing - all Bendigo trams.





Has a Corrigenda sheet glued to the inside of the front cover.

Inscriptions & markings

The Corrigenda has a blue tick and "1-10" in the top right hand corner of the first page.