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Slide - SECV Ballarat level crossing trams 30 & 32 - set of two, Hugh Ballment, c1950

  • SECV Ballarat level crossing trams 30 & 32

    SECV Ballarat level crossing trams 30 & 32

  • SECV Ballarat level crossing tram 32

    SECV Ballarat level crossing tram 32

  • SECV Ballarat level crossing trams 30 & 32
  • SECV Ballarat level crossing tram 32

Historical information

Set of two colour slides of the Lydiard St level crossings and tramway operations. Photo undated, early 1950s before the application of the reflective triangles but after the installation of tail lights.
1 - trams 30 (Lydiard St Nth) and 32 (Sebastopol) in Lydiard St North with the level crossing in the background. A technical college and the Provincial hotel are in the background, with a small brown bus on the left-hand side. Tram 30 would have waited on the double line for 32 to clear after the gates were opened.
2 - tram 32 waits for an arriving southbound train to cross the level crossing. In the background is Victoria House.

Significance

Yields information about tram operations in Lydiard St North and the impact of the level crossing.

Physical description

Slide colour Kodak cardboard with Hugh Ballment stamp

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