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JOURNAL Running ram e T wa n y r M u u o s b e l u e Running m M RUNNINGIf it’s about something that runs on rails, RUNNING AB CKACB is where youK run it inside: Plenty to look into and start Melbourne does JOURNAL thinking about in “Running Memphis Back” this month. News from Victoria’s Original & Biggest Tramway Heritage Centre No. 199 / 2010 $2* A scene (top) from Steven Spielberg’s “The Pacific”, recently seen on Ch 7, poses all manner of questions for Melburnians. Would the station have looked this good back in WW2? What a fine-looking structure it is. NEXT STOP A scene from Steven Spielberg’s “The Pacific” (Channel 7) KILMORE? The picture above shows Station, trams and buses, all still familiar A CarGoTram freighter in Dresden. Melbourne next? to us, in 1946. Flinders St Station was designed in the UK and there has been a persistent rumour that the design was intended for the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai. It has never been confirmed, of course. The CarGo Tram (centre) carries parts across Dresden for Volkswagen. The 5-segment trams run every 60 minutes and were built by Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Gelsenkirchen. The idea is terrific How do you see the future of MTM? Let us know. as it keeps plenty of trucks off the On page 7 you’ll find a roads. Service started in 2001. discussion of some of the Any chance such an idea could issues relating to operating IN THIS ISSUE catch on in Melbourne? a service in Kilmore. This • 100 YEARS OF THE P&MTT NOT A MEMBER? Finally, home at rustic MTM includes the twin questions • NZ’S NEW BIRNEY CAR JOIN US NOW AT of visibility for us and the • Ws IN ELVISVILLE www.tramway.org.au Bylands, our star tram comes benefits to Kilmore of such • W 667 BACK FROM THE WAR • NEWS FROM MTM BYLANDS firmly back down to earth an eye-catching tourist • BOUQUETS & BRICKBATS NEW POSTAL ADDRESS: Chairman Doug welcomes 667 back to MTM Bylands (bottom) after its career in films. attraction. • RUNNING BACK SEE PAGE 2 FOR DETAILS What’s your view? ® 8 q Running Journal No. 199 / 2010 RUNNING JOURNAL is produced by PERCEPTIONEERING : DEVELOPING POSITIVE IMPRESSIONS. 0408 345 728 *suggested donation © 2010 Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Inc. Design © Tony Miles/Perceptioneering®. All Rights Reserved BYLANDS BLITZ As part of the Big Clean-up at KILMORE BY MTM Bylands, the windscreen, YOUR dash, apron and part of the roof SAY Journal from Adelaide’s H371 have been your NEXT EASTER? MTM transformed by an enthusiastic It’s A few weeks ago the local paper big workload for members. NEWSTRACK working group into our Visitor ... so let’s be told us that the But it’s the Reception and Sales Area. having you! Shire Council ideal win-win The unit will also form the basis is mustard package. SHIRE of a portable promotional display keen to get Kilmore gets COUNCILLOR for the Museum, the first booking One letter ... tourism back a unique new for which is the Mitchell Shire on the map in attraction in PRAISES Tourism Expo at Wellington Congratulations on your rebranding Kilmore. the shape of Square Shopping Centre at Wallan and in particular the new look And it was an historic MTM BYLANDS for the three-day weekend from Running Journal which we received never marked horse tram Friday 7th May. Support welcome. recently. ‘classified’ that (where else A big step up from the old format Sunday 25th April. Trevor Tobias, the Tramway would you see Mitchell Shire Councillor, paid a and some great information and return visit to MTM Bylands. stories. Museum - let alone ride During a lengthy visit, Councillor PCC 980 ONE STEP This should get the message out that Society and - one of those Tobias quizzed the team on duty TMSV is alive, well and going places! MTM Bylands anywhere about a wide range of topics relating We are looking forward to the next are very keen else that’s to the Museum’s future. NEARER rehab edition. to lift their this close to Running Journal is pleased to report Seen in the picture below in earlier Whilst the trucks are unlikely to be Dave Hinman profiles and get Melbourne?). that Trevor was impressed by the days at Bylands, PCC car 980 may able to provide motive power, having Secretary, Tramway Historical Society, their product And TMSV’s progress now becoming apparent at have taken a first, hesitant step closer proper PCC trucks under 980 will be Christchurch, New Zealand to rehabilitation. a great move forward. better known. aged tram gets MTM. This unique vehicle could soon have Incidentally, the picture below was In fact, we’d out a bit more. He was also clearly happy that the the use of a set of PCC trucks which found on Flickr, to which it had been ... and a thought love to have a Of course future of such a potentially important has been recently relocated to the uploaded by an enthusiast called zed. tram running there’s the tourist attraction is looking so Exhibition Shed. fitzhume and was part of a selection for the month positive. Work will be starting in the coming of over 15,000 photos of trams from again in little matter of Hudson Park accreditation “What a difference from the last weeks on their cosmetic restoration. around the globe. Members might Running Journal was made aware of time I was here,” he said as he left. Interestingly, whilst the trucks like to visit the site at the following comments by another member who by Easter next and business came from Belgium where they were address: http://www.flickr.com/ had expressed, with what might have year. (To save plans and used under a PCC car, they were, in photos/24447011@N02/4271028473/in/ you looking approvals and fact, built in the USA by the Clark pool-ttc been sarcasm, his disappointment at GOT TRAMWAY NEWS Equipment Company, better known We acknowledge zed.fitzhume the late arrival of our last two issues. it up, Good laying tracks TO SHARE? as manufacturers of Michigan Fork and invite him to join TMSV, if not He was also somewhat less than Friday is 22nd and fixing Lifts and earthmoving equipment. already a member. enthusiastic about the ‘glossy’ new April. sheds and PLEASE EMAIL IT TO look, the lack of news about museum That’s less finding horses [email protected] events and the fact that events than a year from what some have ... But hey, it’s not even winter yet! had become historic before their to call ‘this point in time’. And one announcement in RJ. Editor Running Journal is a publication We like to think that we’ve made COPIES OF THE BROCHURE AND APPLICATION FORM [above] of Melbourne Tramway Museum, Running Journal livelier, more AVAILABLE AT MTM BYLANDS or www.tramway.org.au 330 Union Lane, interesting, wider-ranging and more newsful. Bylands Victoria 3762. We agree that timeliness is next to ... well, next to impossible. Please Melbourne Tramway Museum is a remember that many contributors registered business name of have jobs and commitments which the Tramway Museum Society of make deadlines hard to keep. Sorry. Victoria Inc., PO Box 976, As far as TMSV, MTM Bylands and Ringwood VIC 3134, Australia other local content is concerned, ABN 12 739 015 600 you’ll find plenty in this issue. And don’t forget to check the Victorian Registration A0001864E website - www.tramway.org.au - to http://www.tramway.org.au ANY OLD iron? NEW ON BOARD The next time you look around Running Journal Editor, Tony Miles, stay up-to-date on dates, etc.. email: [email protected] has joined the TMSV Board. Tony The Journal welcomes contributions MTM you’ll very likely notice quite brings years of experience in tourism - brickbats as well as bouquets - from Running Journal a few things are missing, gone in the advertising in London and Melbourne. all our members. Pictures, articles, Editor: Tony Miles Big Blitz in late April. He helped tiny Air Jamaica knock letters and comments, cheers and Design: Perceptioneering® British Airways off a key Caribbean Scrap metal, other rubbish and route, had a hand in British Caledonian groans are all gratefully received. email: [email protected] Ed. Bylands’ old Junkyard 101 status. becoming Britain’s joint flag carrier and helped launch SeaCat Tasmania’s Contact RUNNING JOU R NAL at Thanks to everybody who turned on duty pioneering wave-piercing catamaran SEND YOUR LETTERS TO: [email protected] up and put in so much hard yakka. services across Bass Strait. [email protected] 2 q Running Journal No. 199 / 2010 Running Journal No. 199 / 2010 q 7 equipment to make the tram go has been obtained from Australia, with some, notably the truck, having to be greatly modified to replicate the original. 100 YEARS OF THE The Society would also be interested in any photographs featuring the Birney trams, and in particular interior shots as none PRAHRAN & MALVERN of these have so far come to light. Photos are invaluable in helping Yet another milestone in Melbourne’s amazing tramway history to identify details essential architecture. for accurate restoration. One The first thirteen trams were particular feature of these trams A-class single-truck drop-end was the “farebox” into which passengers placed their cash or California combination cars built tickets. After the trams finished in Adelaide by Duncan & Fraser, these fareboxes were used for carried on Brill 21E trucks and some years in the replacement painted in a chocolate and cream INVERCARGILL buses.
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