Historical information
Newspaper cutting about the position of Melbourne trams in the world in terms of kilometres of track and the number of routes based on Jane's Urban Transport Systems. Has comments from the National Trust, PTUA, and about the tram fleet. Notes the recent growth in the Melbourne system. Item written by Bruce Tobin.
How Jane's obtained or intepreted their information is unkinown - a check at the time of cataloguing notes that Prague was 144km and Poznan was about 66km of route - based on their Wikipedia pages.
Significance
Yields information about Melbourne's position in the world tram list in 1995 - but this is subject to interepretion.
Physical description
Newspaper cutting from The Age 16/1/1995
