(rshsdepot) Bangor, Tasmania- part 4 (Hobart Municipal Tramways , double deck trams, trolleybuses, horse trams)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Hobart trams, Hobart Municipal Tramways, gauge 3 feet 6 inches probably to
1954
Ran from Elizabeth Street to Glenorchy. :
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Trams/12549936.jpg
a lot of postcards, but they are pretty nice:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Trams/12549946.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Trams/12549941.jpg
I am presuming this is Hobart's tram. These are 6 double deck open-top trams
coupled together, pulled by the first car. Sometimes they did 2 together,
this must be a special trip:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Trams/12549951.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Launcestonstreetselph
inrd/12542187.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Launcestonstreetselph
inrd/12542197.jpg
Building a line at Elphin Road:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Launcestonstreetselph
inrd/12542192.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541282.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541284.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsliverpoo
lst/12541332.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsliverpoo
lst/12541334.jpg
w/trolleybus:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsmacquari
e/12541336.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541286.jpg
Double Deck open tram:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Trams/12549931.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetscorners/
12541299.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Trams/12549926.jpg
[The last one may not be Hobart]
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541290.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Trams/12549921.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541322.jpg
Opened as the Hobart Electric Tramway Company, Sept. 23, 1893 with three
routes. From the railroad station to the Cascades Brewery;  Between the
General Post Office and Sandy Bay; and along Elizabeth Street to Moonah. The
first complete electric streetcar system in the Southern hemisphere. The
wires were causing interference on the telephone system's circuits which
delayed the opening. Twenty double deck tram cars began the operation.
  Victoria (1889) and New South Wales (1890) had had short unsuccessful
electric lines. Only Australian tram system to use a sliding bow collector
system, like heavy railways.  in 1911, the Hobart City Council made a move
to take over the line, public ownership was thought that public ownership
was best for   benefiting the public better. The HETC was owned by a London
based company.  In 1913 the Government passed the Tramways Bill that allowed
the Council the right of law to control the trams. Oh, how times change. The
Hobart Municipal Tramways too over in June 1913, and expanded the system,
doubling the size in ten years; the heyday was 1932 to 1942 when they
operated 32km of line.
  In 1942 the Cascades trams were replaced by trolleybuses; In 1952 the
Sandy Bay Road route was next. In 1950 the City Council expected to abolish
the trams but were expecting up to 15 years more of service, but in 1955 all
public transport was taken over by the Metropolitan Transport Trust and the
Council lost control (another auto and gas and rubber conspiracy?) The last
tramway in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ran 10/21/1960.
Map showing lines and RR too: http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/hobart.gif
Hobart streetcar views:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetscorners/
12541292.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541288.jpg     (the Moonah tram)
http://www.railtasmania.com/pres/graphics/tram-133.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541285.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541323.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541324.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541287.jpg
http://www.hcc.tas.gov.au/tramway/images/gallerys/gallery1/original05.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541281.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541293.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541294.jpg
The terminus of this line:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541326.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541321.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541283.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetselizabet
h/12541325.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsmacquari
e/12541337.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsmacquari
e/12541343.jpg
At Town Hall:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsmacquari
e/12541344.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsmacquari
e/12541341.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsmacquari
e/12541342.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/postcards/Hobartstreetsmacquari
e/12541340.jpg

Trolley buses on Macquarie St., c. 1940s:
http://www.archphotos.archives.tas.gov.au/Images/30-5s/30-530C.jpg

Horse drawn tram to Cape Sorell Lighthouse, Macquarie Harbour, c. 1900-1909:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/mar1999/normal/AUTAS00112564076
3.jpg
The tracks at the lighthouse:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/mar1999/normal/AUTAS00112564075
5.jpg
1946:
http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/Bulletin/0008/Cape%20Sorell%20Tramway%20
1946%20amsa%204.jpg
Tramway to Tasman Island Lighthouse, c. 1910-1919:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/mar1999/normal/AUTAS00112564092
0.jpg

Today the Hobart City Council wants to construct a tourist tram on the
harbor, the Sullivan Cove Tramway, but the cash strapped Australian
National Trust has spent 50,000 trying to prevent it.:
http://www.railtasmania.com/pres/group.php?id=hcctram
http://www.hcc.tas.gov.au/tramway/
http://www.hcc.tas.gov.au/tramway/images/tram17.jpg
In the gallery you can click on more historic pictures and how they found
the 5 abandoned cars and restored them here, also artists impressions of
what the Sullivan Cove system would look like:
http://www.hcc.tas.gov.au/tramway/gallery.htm

The last trolleybus to run in Hobart (1968), at the museum, 1999:
http://www.railtasmania.com/ttms/graphics/tb235.jpg     Built 1952

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