TRAINS & TRAMS
Destination Waterfront City: A Guide to Melbourn.e’s Trams
Randall Wilson and Dale Budd
The essential handbook for all those interested in Melbourne’s trams,
Destination Waterfront
City
provides detailed technical and pictorial coverage of the city’s current tram fleet, from
the current in service W class trams to the new E class. It also includes colourful
photographs, diagrams and authoritative information on other information about the largest
tram network in the world. It also includes up to date track maps of Melbourne’s tram network.
ISBN: 978-0-90945-925-3
80
pages
$59.95
Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust
Ian A. Brady
A comprehensive history of one of Melbourne’s early municipal tramways. It opened in 1910, and
continued until 1920, when it was taken over by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board.
Operating in Melbourne’s east, the P&MTT ran most of what is now the North Balwyn, Box Hill,
Camberwell, Kew, Glen Iris, Malvern, East Malvern, St Kilda and Carnegie tram routes. By 1920, it was
the largest of the early tramways systems.
ISBN: 978-0-90945-923-9
96
pages
$59.95
Mind the Curve!
John D. Keating
The colourful cable tram, ‘gliding along with its swanlike motion’, remains the nostalgic memory for
Australians that the hansom cab is for the Londoner. Yet it was the major street transport over two
generations for Melbourne, San Francisco, Chicago and other brash and self-confidently expanding great
cities of the late nineteenth century. Immense investment and labour were required to establish the
seventeen radiating routes of Melbourne, and smaller ones of Sydney. Melbourne’s network of forty-six
miles of double track equalled or surpassed those of San Francisco or Chicago in complexity and public importance. The
innovative local technology of Duncan and Clapp was closely studied by transport authorities in the USA and elsewhere.
Only San Francisco’s cable trams, an internationally famous tourist attraction, remain in use. Melbourne’s last tram made
its final quiet journey down Bourke Street on 26 October 1940, ending fifty-five years of public transport. The musical bell
rang no more, and the gripman gave for the last time his traditional warning call to passengers, ‘Mind the curve!’
ISBN: 978-0-90945-919-2
192
pages
$27.45
Transcontinental Train Odyssey: The Ghan, The Khyber, The Globe
Tim Fischer
Join Tim Fischer, former deputy prime minister of Australia and one of the country's best-known (and most
energetic) train enthusiasts, on an entertaining and informative journey to the great railways of the world.
From the early days of train travel to the heady international race to develop new railways to the inaugural
journey of Australia's new Ghan, Tim explores the successes and the disasters of a mode of transport that
still captures the imagination today. Here are tales from Tim's many hundreds of train trips around the world,
colourful anecdotes about the characters he's met and the far-flung places he's visited, and descriptions of his twelve
greatest stations in the world - as well as enough rail history and technical information to satisfy the most ardent
trainspotter.
ISBN: 978-1-74114-450-5
240
pages
$37.95
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