Bankruptcy, Dynamite and Burning Effigies: When Doncaster had a Tram
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Australia's first electric tram operated in Melbourne's eastern suburbs between the then-towns of Box Hill and Doncaster. It had a short but tumultuous history and paved the way for the electrification of the city's tram network.
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Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society: dt-hs.blogspot...
My website: philipmallis.com
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
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“The company hoped to attract regular travellers, as well as day trippers and tourists”
A tradition Westfield maintains to this day!
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A tram from boxhill station to Doncaster.....
What a wonderful idea to build now
Excellent description of the first tramway, ❤️
Very comprehensive. Thank you for posting.
227 liked, Thanks for the history on this matey, I always wondered about the Doncaster and Box Hill tram my grandfather told me about when I was young.
Just caught up to this video. I was in Doncaster about 6 months ago and noticed I was driving on Tram Road.... which had me perplexed because there was no tram! I was meant to look it up but forgot.... until this video came along and has relieved my curiosity completely!
(Also, looking forward to you recking 10000 subscribers, definitely deserving with all the effort you put in!)
Thank you Philip you could not have timed it better. I'm putting some road safety stuff together and you genuinely nailed the timing of this video.
In 1883 it was said Amongst all the sights of Sydney perhaps the one which strikes the visitor most is the systems of steam trams on its roads killing on average one person per week.
The first electric tramway trip on Australian roads was on the 14th October 1889 from Box Hill to Doncaster in Victoria.
The first motor vehicle appeared in Melbourne in 1897.
I live in Doncaster. LGAs around Melbourne have an average of 7 Railway stations each. Manningham has none, although we did once have this tram. Tram Road mocks me every time I have to drive on it, and even closer to home, the painting on the electrical box commemorating the tram across the road from Doncaster Park and Ride further rubs in what we have lost.
That was a terrific story of Melbourne’s early Trams. My grandmother would have seen those trams. She was born in 1885 and passed in 1978. I have her engraved christening mug. She was born in Kew, then lived in Carlton all her life. I loved staying at Nans, so close to the city, it was great fun sleeping over at Nan and Pa’s. My grandfathers sister, my great aunt born 1900, also lived in Carlton lived till aged 92. She was the family storyteller. We’d beg her to the same old stories of her younger days over and over lol. Happy memories.
Well constructed and well edited as usual. Thanks Philip.
Excellent presentation and research.
I remember in the '90s going all the way from way out Bundoora way into city and then on to Brunswick street North Fitzroy....I was on my own down from Queenland and very proud of myself...
Wonderful explanation
Absolutely love your videos full of great information, and a Aussie history lession on something so cool 😊
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This is pretty cool!! What a fascinating story!
Muddy country roads from Kew to the wilds of Doncaster. Fun times.
Thanks for such a great story!
I look forward to meeting you and telling you about trams friend.
I love the things you are able to find out...
I loved the Trams as a youngster in the late '40s....
As always EXCELLENT documentary !! Keep up the great work. Thanks
Awesome Awesome Awesome 👌
Outstanding episode Phil
Your channel is quickly becoming my favourite subscription so interesting good on you mate
My parents live in that area. Having been up and down Tram Rd probably a thousand times. The name is a clear reminder what we had lost. Sure the Smart Bus is fine, but it's smelly diesel exhaust, noise and some have now caught on fire. I always whished there was still trams there.
Love watching these videos of OLd Melbourne! I worked in an original Inner City club (MelbourneClub) and used to spend time in the cellar looking over old historical artifacts...Love this stuff!
I walked past here yesterday and wondered what it was used for! What kind of historical documents/artefacts did you look at?
Brilliant video! I knew about the box hill tram but didn't know about the exhibition tram. A new piece of trivia for sure!
Great video, I knew something of the tramway and the Doncaster tower but you filled in a lot of detail. I also did not know of the Carlton gardens tramway. I’m a little curious to know of how the Sunshine harvester factory made use of the trams.
Thanks Phillip, always great and worth every minute. Keep up the good work.
Terrific video; thank you so much.
(I was sort of stunned at the last closing shot though, it looks like Doncaster Junction of course, but my brain keeps telling me 'No it's not'... that shot would have included the Dairy's horse paddock long ago in it)
Damn i did not know about this and i travel oftern around the region. wish there are still trams but sadly its been removed as it would be a great advantage if it still exist nowadays, espeically travelling between doncaster and box hill. But at least this video gave a great explaination of what happen to the tramway and its significance of it
very enjoyable and entertaining. i noticed at 2:21, the typesetter used a capital 'l' symbol instead of the pound symbol. he must have run out of pound symbols. possibly too many ads in that issue of the paper.
I can't imagine a day trip to Doncaster! lol.
Which Otways mill were the tracks sent to? I live out there and study the history of the area.
Kilmore also had a Tram at some point
Descendants of these people spent a billion not building a road. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Who remembers the McDonald’s on Doncaster rd with a tram IN it ?
It had lots of the pictures (*if I recall correctly*) shown in this great video, as well as similar history told with photos and storyboards around the restaurant ( *can I call it that?*)
When mcdonalds was cool
Someone posted photos of this on Reddit a few years ago: np.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/mab9aq/does_anyone_remember_the_old_doncaster_maccas/
I recall it was near where Audi is now.
I've always lived in Box Hill or Doncaster and always thought that it had been a cable car system, like San Francisco's... apparently I thought wrong.
Haha...hearing Doncaster and Box Hill referenced as Rural Towns...no chance of that now!!!
we are blessed with our huge tram and train networks, i bet the gold fields of bendigo and ballarat paid for much of it ???
What a story!
Anothet great video 😁
I drove H-Type Trams in Adelaide.
Coincidentally the only times I've had Bosses steal my wages is in Victoria
"...and seeing that the railway connection of Doncaster to Melbourne is unfortunately delayed..."
Sunshine Harvester
What a mess in the end.
Pity that a succession of state governments dithered about building the railway to Doncaster from Victoria Park.
i can see my lunchroom of my work.