Historical information

A cable tram set, including trailer 126, is stationary with gripman and conductor standing on the roadway next to the dummy. From the names on the rear, they may have been related. The tram is facing north in Chapel St outside the depot just north of Carlise St. A cable tram Dummy can be glimpsed heading for the terminus at Brighton Road. The destination shows 'St Kilda Rd' which suggests this after truncation of the Prahan line in Domain Road. The uniforms and car livery are those of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board. c1926.

Significance

Yields information about the last years of the Chapel Street cable line.

Physical description

Black and white photograph with postcard markings and names on rear

Inscriptions & markings

In ink on rear: 'John Gordon Ferguson on left, Don Ferguson, Cable Tram'