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    Trams in Ballarat were first used for public transport in 1887. They ceased to operate as a means of public transport in 1971, but a section continues...
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    cable trams (established in 1885) lingered in Melbourne. In cities and towns that had trams, they were a major part of public transport assets. In the middle...
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    archive of information and more than 3,500 items about the Ballarat tramways. The trams in Ballarat operated on a large network through the city from 1887...
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    The W-class trams are a family of electric trams built by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) between 1923 and 1956. Over the 33 years of...
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    August 2014). "Call to bring trams back". The Courier. No trams for at least a decade. The Courier. 31 July 2002. pg. 147. Ballarat CBD Strategy 2012 – Appendix...
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    major regional cities, Ballarat and Bendigo, which have kept some track and trams as tourist attractions, no trams or tracks remain in Geelong. There had...
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    museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851...
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    trams, they were re-classed as C-class trams. The 22E Maximum Traction trucks were of JG Brill design, although manufactured by Brush in England. In 1917...
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    systems—electricity in city streets and diesel in more rural environments. Occasionally, trams also carry freight. Some trams, known as tram-trains, may have...
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    drop-end-and-centre Maximum Traction trams (former D-class, E-class, N-class, and P-class) were grouped together as C-class trams. The 22E Maximum Traction trucks...
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    Electric Trams (5 ed.). Sydney: Transit Publishing Australia. pp. 54, 123. ISBN 0 909459 18 5. PMTT tramcar fleet Melbourne Tram Museum J Class Vicsig Tram 13...
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    Sebastopol, Victoria (category Suburbs of Ballarat)
    suburb on the rural-urban fringe of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It is the third most populated area in urban Ballarat with a population of 10,194 at the...
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    light trams (trams that are decorated with LED strips and/or Christmas decoration). These trams operate on various lines around the cities in the late...
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    The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge, electrification...
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    record for longevity; Black dies eight days later. September 19 – Trams in Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) cease to run. September 21 – Pakistan declares...
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    been painted in the standard Melbourne green colours, these trams resembled a smaller version of the ubiquitous Melbourne W class trams. Tramcars that...
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    Society as Ballarat number 31 (in Bendigo livery) Cross, Norman; Budd, Dale; Wilson, Randall (1993). Destination City Melbourne's Electric Trams (5 ed.)...
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    The A type Adelaide tram was a class of 70 drop-end, Californian combination trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide in 1908/09 for the Municipal Tramways...
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  • The history of trams, streetcars, or trolleys began in the early nineteenth century. It can be divided up into several discrete periods defined by the...
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  • class trams, the M&MTB started a new numbering system. Tramways in Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Sorrento and the Victorian Railways had their own tram numbering...
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    "The Lives and Times of Ballarat Trams Nos 18 and 40" Trolley Wire issue 336 February 2014 pages 3-10 H Class Vicsig Tram 13 Ballarat Tramway Museum...
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  • Tramway Museum Society of Victoria (category Trams in Melbourne)
    collection of trams from Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong, Adelaide, and Sydney as well as preserved buses and other work vehicles. The TMSV was founded in 1962 with...
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    Ballarat Road is a major urban arterial road in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Ballarat Road commences at the interchange with...
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    Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust (category Trams in Melbourne)
    tramways in 1951 as Tram 40. In 1956 it was moved to Ballarat as Tram 43. When the tramway closed in 1971 the tram was given to the Apex Club of Barwon. In 1987...
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  • This is a list of cities and towns in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere in Oceania that have, or once had, town tramway (urban tramway, or streetcar)...
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  • been painted in the standard Melbourne green colours, these trams resembled a smaller version of the ubiquitous Melbourne W class trams. Tramcars that...
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    officially listed for the Ballarat Road line on the Footscray system, but was never used in practice since the single-truck trams used on that line didn't...
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    Ballarat railway station is located on the Serviceton line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the city of Ballarat, and opened on 11 April 1862 as Ballarat...
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    Allotment 2 Section One Parish of Ballaarat County of Grenville Trams in Ballarat The Ballarat Star Tue 12 Sept 1905 Page 2 Family Notices The Will of Joseph...
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  • of 150 jobs remains in limbo The Courier 11 July 2004 New and refurbished trains and trams Department of Infrastructure Ballarat North Workshops Newsrail...
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