Functional object - Timetable Board, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Camberwell Junction - Batman Ave, 1970s

Historical information

Timetable board for Camberwell Junction Batman Ave route 70, detailing times that services were scheduled to depart the Junction. Probably used until replaced by The Met style signs in the mid-1980s.

Significance

Demonstrates a timetable board style used by the MMTB in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Physical description

Board made up to display tramway timetables for attachment to a post comprising heavy galvanised steel backing sheet with two small channels either end, spot welded to the steel back, front painted in green with the letters "M&M.T.B" in yellow paint, perspex sheet at the front, secured by 6 Allen screws with nuts on rear, containing a typed timetable sheet - for Camberwell Junction for Batman Ave timetable - undated.

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