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Photograph - Ballarat Tram 11, Shows No 11 travelling up Victoria Street with St Alipius Church in the background, 11 August 1971

  • No 11 travelling up Victoria Street with St Alipius Church in the background,

Historical information

This tram was built by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company of Sydney in 1915. First used by Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust, then went to Geelong. It came to Ballarat in 1936. When the trams stopped running in Ballarat it went to Dalyesford and District Historical Society. In 1977 it was acquired by the Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society (Ballarat Tramway Museum from 1995).
The photo shows Tram 11 coming up Victoria Street, going past St Alipius Church, on 11 August 1971. Photographer was Campbell Duncan.

Physical description

Colour image in cardboard Kodak mount. 35mm slide

Inscriptions & markings

Handwritten notation in ink on mount.

Subjects

References

  • "The Golden City and its Tramways: Ballarat's Tramway Era", by Alan Bradley
  • Last Tram at 11: Tramways of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong by William F Scott
  • Ballarat Tramway Museum: Fleet and Infrastructure Conservation Policy;Version 3, September 2024
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