MELBOURNE

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INSET: DOWNTOWN MELBOURNE

TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Yarra Trams

1	East Coburg - Lygon St. - Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - Sturt St. - Park St. - South Melbourne Beach
3	Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - Balaclava Rd. - East Malvern
5	Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - Dandenong Rd. - Malvern
6	Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - High St. - Glen Iris
8	Moreland - Lygon St. - Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - Domain Rd. - Toorak Rd. - Toorak
16	Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - St. Kilda Beach - Balaclava Rd. - Glenferrie Rd. - Kew
19	North Coburg - Royal Parade - Elizabeth St. - City
24	North Balwyn - High St. - Victoria St. - Victoria Parade - La Trobe St. - West End (Spencer St.)
30	St Vincents Plaza - Victoria Parade - La Trobe St. - Docklands Dr. - NewQuay Docklands
31	St Vincents Plaza - Collins St. - Collins St. West End
48	North Balwyn - High St. - Bridge Rd. - Wellington Parade - Flinders St. - Harbour Esplanade - Docklands Dr. - NewQuay Docklands
55	West Coburg - Melville Rd. - Flemmington Rd. - Peel St. - Wiiliam St. - Queens Bridge St. - Kings Way - Park St. - Domain Interchange
57	West Maribyrnong - Maribyrnong Rd. - Newmarket - Abbotsford St. - Victoria St. - Elizabeth St. - City
59	Airport West - Essendon - Mooney Ponds - Flemmington Rd. - Elizabeth St. - City
64	Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - Dandenong Rd. - Hawthorn Rd. - East Birghton
67	Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - Brighton Rd. - Glenhuntly - Carnegie
70	Wattle Park - Riversdale Rd. - Swan St.. - Richmond - Melbourne Park - Flinders St. - Harbour Esplanade - Bourke St. Docklands
72	Melbourne University - Swanston St. - Flinders St. Station - St. Kilda Rd. - Malvern Rd. - Burke Rd. - Camberwell
75	Vermont South - Burwood Highway - Toorak Rd. - Camberwell Rd. - Riversdale Rd. - Bridge Rd. - Wellington Parade - Flinders St. - Spencer St. - West End (Spencer St.)
78	North Richmond - Church St. - Chapel St. - Prahran
79	North Richmond - Church St. - Chapel St. - St. Kilda
82	Footscray - West Maribyrnong - Maribyrnong Rd. - Moonee Ponds
86	Bundoora RMIT - Kingsbury - Thornbury - Northcote - Westgarth - Smith St. - Gertrude St. - Nicholson St. - Bourke St. - Spencer St. - La Trobe St. - Telstra Dome
95	Melbourne Museum - Nicholson St. - Bourke St. - West End (Bourke St.)
96	East Brunswick - Nicholson St. - Bourke St. - Spencer St. - Ferrars St. - Canterbury Rd. - St. Kilda Beach
109	Box Hill - Whitehorse Rd. - Cotham Rd. - Victoria St. - Victoria Parade - Collins St. - Spencer St. - Port Melbourne
112	West Preston - Gilbert Rd. - St. Georges Rd. - Brunswick St. - Collins St. - Spencer St. - Clarendon St. - Park St. - St. Kilda
CC	[City Circle:] Flinders St. Station - Flinders St. - Harbour Esplanade - La Trobe St. - Spring St. - Flinders St. - Flinders St. Station [Circular route, both directions]

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Tram lines: 249 km.



HISTORY

• Cable tramways: 1885 - 26 Oct. 1940.
• Electric tramways (Doncaster): 1889 - 1896.
• Electric tramways (Melbourne): 7 May 1906 - today.
• Suburban light railway (Port Melbourne line): 13 Apr. 1854 - 10 Oct. 1987 (converted to electric tramway).
• Suburban light railway (St Kilda line): 13 May 1857 - 1 July 1987 (converted to electric tramway).

GAUGE

• Cable trams & Trams: 1435 mm.
• Suburban light railways (Port Melbourne & St.Kilda lines): 1600 mm.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Keenan, D.R. Melbourne tramways. Sans Souci (N.S.W.): Transit Press, 1985
• Marshall-Wood, L. "The development of the Melbourne tramways", The Modern Tramway March 1948 (11:123), p.22,24.
• Wilson, R. & Budd D.. The Melbourne tram book. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, rev.ed., 2005.

WIKIS

• Melbourne cable tramway system [En]
• List of Melbourne tram routes [En]
• Port Melbourne railway line, Melbourne [En]
• Railways in Melbourne [En]
• St Kilda railway line, Melbourne [En]
• Trams in Melbourne [En]
• Yarra Trams [En]

WEB SITES

• Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand [by Joe Thompson]
• Metlink [En]
• Yarra Trams [En]

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