Today's historic photo of the day: SW5 class #tram 834 running an un-numbered Camberwell Junction short working of the former peak hours-only William Street to Camberwell route 32 at Flinders St in Market St, Melbourne, October 29, 1986.
Route 32 was one of a handful of weekday peak hours routes from William St to the south-eastern suburbs. Most trams from these destinations run along Swanston St, but these peak hour services brought commuters to the western end of the city along William St.
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These peak hour extras were withdrawn just after this photo was taken and replaced by shuttles from Domain Rd up William Street. The only route that nowadays runs along William Street (and this short section in Market Street) is the crosstown route 58 between Toorak and West Coburg.
W class trams no longer operate regular services, however a handful have been retained and re-built to operate the tourist oriented City Circle route. Tram 834 has however been withdrawn and stored.
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@railmaps@mastodon.online looks like the trolley pole on the front has been tied up onto the handrail at the entrance rather than the trolley retriever. Was this common or was this one just broken? Or is that something else altogether?
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@mary That was normal. These cars didn’t have trolley retrievers - those didn’t come along until the Z classes of the early 1970s. All Ws and older cars had hooks on the roof which held the unused pole down, and the rope was loose and usually tied to a special bracket on the side - or sometimes the grab handle near the driver’s cab door.
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