The number 215, an early electric tram predating the classic W class, awaits service in front of an unknown depot.

A driver, conductor and inspectors lounge upon the seats, their working day not yet started. Passengers often complained about the open-bodied design of these trams, which allowed the weather in, rain, hail or shine.

Trammies stand nonchalantly beside a cable tram.

Signage reveals this particular tram ran from Spencer Street to Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

This cable tram bustles along High Street in Northcote, already a well established northern suburb when this photo was taken.

Dorothy Flinn wrote this colourful postcard to Anna Scott sometime between 1904 and 1907. Mailed from Melbourne to Scotland, it features a scene along Bourke Street towards Parliament building.

For much of Melbourne's history, no postcard of the city was complete without an image of a tram somewhere in the picture.

This photograph depicts a badly-damaged Ormond tram awaiting repair in a tram shed. Trammies pose beside the battered vehicle.

Admiring the conversion of the Sydney Road tram line in 1936, this conductor and line inspector cut a sharp image in their smart uniforms.

Drivers and conductors were sometimes a little awed by inspectors as inspectors had the power to penalise them for misdemeanours on the job.

This map from the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Report and Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 30 June 1950, shows how extensive Melbourne's tram network was in the immediate post-war era.

By this stage, cable trams had been phased out and the MMTB also operated some bus routes.

The Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board regularly published a newsletter with updates on the tram industry, including sports club results and dates for the latest performance of the tramways band.

This cover unveils what was then the latest in technological sophistication for remote monitoring of the tram system. At the time the monitoring centre was called the 'Supervisory'. It is now referred to as the 'Fleet Operations Centre'.

Prams, umbrellas, golf clubs and suitcases are just some of the items in the tramways lost property department.

This photo reveals the assortment of objects passengers have left behind on trams.

The tramways interstate cricket team pose in uniform.

Sports clubs were an important social glue that bound Trammies together. Many tram workers in the post-war decades participated in one or more sporting teams.

A group of new apprentices, with two W class trams from route 39. Every year a new intake of apprentices joined the Preston Workshops to learn the craft of tram building.

This Trammie is working on the electrics of a tram's underbelly in the vast space of the Preston Workshops.

In the background trams of different historical eras await repairs.

When the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board was eventually replaced by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (or Met), the new body continued the tradition of regular newsletters.

This page from Headway News features results for the Tram and Bus Division Cricket Association as well as a photo of new apprentices from the Preston Workshops.

This conductor's ticket punch was used by a female connie who worked as a tram conductor for the Met (Metropolitan Transit Authority).

She was one of the last conductors employed on Melbourne's tram system, working between November 1996 and May 1998 based at the Brunswick Depot.

The No.2 Gang Civil Branch track maintenance team pose for this photograph on Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Flinders Street Station is visible in the background.