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  @mattgibson27938 ай бұрын

  sick stuff kiddo

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  @cherylpurdue8889 ай бұрын

  Wow,this was a real eye opener, how things have changed so much😮

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  @pamelalawrence8934 Жыл бұрын

  Where did they make the cable cars? Were they all bought out from England? How did they fit on the sailing ships in the 1800's?

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  @garynewton12632 жыл бұрын

  Richmond had a Cable tram depot on the corner of Bridge rd and River street. I remember us kids going in there a few times in the early 1980s. There were a few old wooden teams stored in there back then. It was a Cable house and the infrastructure was still there visible in the floor.

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  @TheHsan22 Жыл бұрын

  Also the building on SE cnr Gertrude and Nicolson Sts opposite the Exhibition Building. My mother used to tell me about "the big wheel on the floor" whenever we went passed.

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  @garynewton1263 Жыл бұрын

  @@TheHsan22 Yeah same big wheel was there in the Richmond engine house too around 1982/3. Inner Melbourne had charm and personality right up to the 90s I think. Then suburbs like Richmond, Carlton, Sth Melb, Fitzroy, Prahran and Brunswick changed.

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  @pisstinpete47002 жыл бұрын

  As a child in the 1960s l remember my father,when driving the family car around a corner, advising everyone to”mind the curve”.now I get it.

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  @xr6lad2 жыл бұрын

  I remember for years until fairly recently there’s was a piece of track at the top of Bourke St with Spencer that still had the cable slot in the middle of track for several metres.

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  @gary83973 жыл бұрын

  A friend of mine had a service station in Victoria Street, Collingwood. With the introduction of unleaded petrol new underground petrol tanks had to be installed. during the process of digging the hole, a huge wheel was discovered this was believed to be one of the wheels the cable went around at the end of the line. I assume it was simply scrapped.

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  @paulkyriakopoulos34443 жыл бұрын

  Melbourne your a grand old beautiful city I'm lucky I grew up in this city.

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  @ThePaulv123 жыл бұрын

  Gertrude Street remains largely unchanged today. I recognize it in this old film no problems at all.

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  @amandab87393 жыл бұрын

  Thank you!

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  @geoffreyhansen85433 жыл бұрын

  The cable trams are fascinating.

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  @heathertruskinger62143 жыл бұрын

  Alf Twentyman and his wife lived in Bastings St Northcote. I lived a few houses away in James St. I was lucky enough as a child to spend many weekends playing on the cable trams he still had in his backyard. They were on tracks, and he would often pull them out .I recall a Dummy car and a closed in car. There may have been 1 or 2 more as well. But that was all the way back in the 1960's

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  @TheHsan22 Жыл бұрын

  Knew him well, lived a bit closer, and played on those same trams ;)

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  @GlennThompson3 жыл бұрын

  In the 1950s an old lady at Mernda had an old Melbourne cable car as her sewing room. She was Mrs. Hayes whom Hayes Rd Mernda is named after. At that time her husband was dead but he was Padre Hays, Church of England I think. His old church was near the corner of Schotters Rd and Bridge Inn Rd Mernda. It was an old wooden structure and on a windy day in about 1958, while a friend and I were watching, it fell over. My sister rescued some of the old brass vases and paraphernalia from the wreckage. As a child, I often sat in that cable car after chopping firewood for her.

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  @stumarston68123 жыл бұрын

  3:31 This is what I look like at work.

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  @johnd88923 жыл бұрын

  The Cable trams in colour shortly before closure in 1940. Probably copied from the Association a Railway Enthusiasts much longer and detailed documentary called Commuting by Cable. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqmJ0btpl7K6j7g.html Radio archive sound track added.

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  @RexBarca3 жыл бұрын

  May have been fun on a summer's evening, on a winter morning, not so much.

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  @darylcheshire16183 жыл бұрын

  Fascinating video, I wondered how cable trams changed points. Until a few years ago there was a short length of cable tram tracks on the corner of Spencer and Bourke Streets, this was removed when the new left and right tracks were installed. Another problem was how did they cross train tracks? Apparently the railway companies were less than cooperative in allowing cable trams to cross their tracks.

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  @Leopold51003 жыл бұрын

  I have only ever heard of Melbourne's cable cars; thank you, very interesting.

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  @juliekemp4193 жыл бұрын

  When i see that very special Melbourne facade of Flinders Street Station i am wistful and wondrous - it reminds me of the Luna Park entrance. I was born in 1948 and had a busy Anglo-Celtic extended family who were always mentioning 'the trams' on a daily basis as they lived in suburban Melbourne, mainly on the south eastern lines. Chapel St, Prahran, Tivoli Road, oh so many more short forms relating to daily travel. Very intense. Marvellous human childhood and young adult sentiments revived - THANK YOU!

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  @hugocortes36803 жыл бұрын

  BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, THANK YOU FOR SHARING! :)

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  @williamrubinstein34423 жыл бұрын

  Amazing!

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  @christinejackson39224 жыл бұрын

  My grandma told me once that she remembered when the trams were drawn by horses is this true ?

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  @jonathantan24693 жыл бұрын

  Yes. The first trams were animal-drawn.

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  @christinejackson39223 жыл бұрын

  Jonathan Tan thanks for that I always wondered as I couldn’t find any old photos or information. Do you know approximately when they were horse drawn

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  @jonathantan24693 жыл бұрын

  @@christinejackson3922 It was before the cable trams were built in the 1880s. I think some of the lines remained horse-drawn into the early 20th century before being fully replaced by cable or electric ones.

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  @johnd88923 жыл бұрын

  @@christinejackson3922 there was a horse drawn tram to the Royal Park Zoo until the Police strike of 1923 when rioters burnt the stables down.

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  @grahamcockerill24064 жыл бұрын

  Absolutely brilliant I'm only 62 so was so interesting to watch, amazing more people weren't injured or killed watching them driving and walking in front of trams and car's 😕

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  @mcilrain4 жыл бұрын

  The man staring at the cable looks like he wants to die. 3:33

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  @medullaoblongata96704 жыл бұрын

  mcilrain he looks like he needs a few ‘Giggle Pills’

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  @RexBarca3 жыл бұрын

  I had a job like that at MM cabless in 91. I was lucky as I had long hair at the time, i could hide the walkman speakers in my ear muffs which helped while away the 12 hour shifts.

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  @johnferguson40894 жыл бұрын

  What an interesting video. I always wondered how the cable trams worked. Many thanks to the late Neville Govett for having the foresight to film this in so much detail and superb quality. Thanks to Heritage Victoria for providing this video for sharing, it's much appreciated.

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  @johnferguson40894 жыл бұрын

  What an interesting video. I always wondered how the cable trams worked. Many thanks to the late Neville Govett for having the foresight to film this in so much detail and superb quality. Thanks to Heritage Victoria for providing this video for sharing, it's much appreciated.

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  @vsvnrg32634 жыл бұрын

  i had an incredibly mind numbing job many years ago filling 1 litre bottles with peanut oil for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. at 3:34, i've just found a worse job.

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  @RexBarca3 жыл бұрын

  Hahahahaja, we have all been there

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  @vsvnrg32633 жыл бұрын

  @@RexBarca , it sounds like you have too. but there are a lot of people who haven't.

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  @vsvnrg32634 жыл бұрын

  back in the early 80's i worked down near no.32 south wharf near where holden used to be. old cable trams started turning up on the wharf. in good condition they seemed to be i might add. one of our co-workers went over to enquire what was going on.. he was told the trams were being backloaded, when there was space, to usa. a tram might be waiting on the dock for a few days then it would disappear. then another one would turn up. some stayed on the wharf for more than a month. i think a total of 5 or 6 disappeared overseas from here. they all appeared to be in good condition and of various colour schemes. the different colours indicated different routes. they must have been stored in a shed somewhere.

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  @medullaoblongata96704 жыл бұрын

  vsv nrg I bet someone (????) made a few bucks on that. Thanks for sharing

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  @vsvnrg32634 жыл бұрын

  @@medullaoblongata9670 ,glad you appreciate my comment. it was probably above board. the trams were going back to where they came from. they were made in usa. and i can appreciate that they have been put to good use in san francisco. they would have been welcome additions to any australian tram museum. the fact that they were stored for decades and not scrapped is rather amazing.

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  @johnd88923 жыл бұрын

  Sounds like when they were withdrawing W class electric trams from service. Built in Australia but old ones found buyers in the USA for tourist service. Seattle was one. Made it to a Frasier episode once. Elton John bought one. Another I saw in an English tram museum. Probably a list on the net of where they are around the world. Most other withdrawn ones were burnt. Replaced by Z class then A class new model trams around this time. Only a very few cable trams survived after the 1940 closure. Much smaller, usually four wheeled trams.

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  @vsvnrg32633 жыл бұрын

  @@johnd8892 , the difference is that the w's were only recently withdrawn. these cable trams were withdrawn more than 40 years earlier. and there were far more w's than cable trams. there must be people out there who knows where and how many were stored in a secure location. as i said, they were in excellent condition from what i saw as i drove past. and being that the trams were visible from lorimer street, lots of people, including tram enthusiasts must have seen them.

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  @johnd88923 жыл бұрын

  @@vsvnrg3263 would have been documented if they were cable trams. Where was the unknown location worth storing cable trams over forty years? America also loved tram like bodies on a bus chassis, called it a trolley and the tourists flocked to it. So much cheaper than tracks etc.

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  @iand.richardson8784 жыл бұрын

  Fascinating video report. My great-grandfather, Arthur Cox, was one of the first gripmen on Melbourne's cable trams.

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  @djackman42294 жыл бұрын

  Bit of a crime to have turned bustling Swanston Street into a mall - it was a great treat to drive down in the old days.

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  @vsvnrg32634 жыл бұрын

  d jackman, i'm a car head. however, we really need to loosen their grip on our way of life. including supposed green electric cars which just transfer the pollution to where the power stations are. it doesn't matter how clean the things run they are still using up oxygen and roads and freeways are forever expanding stealing our space. i know someone who lost their beloved family home when the south eastern freeway was extended through malvern.

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  @MarkHenstridge5 жыл бұрын

  Praise to the Late Mr. Neville Goveet for capturing that period of life in Melbourne. Having the notion to put it on film for future generations to see his brilliant home movie and thank you to other like-minded people like Mr. Govett.

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  @jamesgovett32255 жыл бұрын

  Neville was very passionate about melbournes trams and its history, l was lucky enough to meet him several times many decades ago regarding our own familys history as his grandfather was also my great great grandfather a pioneer of Australia who landed in hobart in 1824 and purchasing John Batmans property in Ben Lomond Tasmania before coming to the mainland several years later, Neville lived his later life in Queensland.

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  @horribleguts5 жыл бұрын

  Interesting story. I will pass it on to my Mum who was an architectural historian with the Government until recently. She had me transfer the video.

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  @vsvnrg32634 жыл бұрын

  @@horribleguts ,good thing you obeyed your mother. your mother knows best.

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  @jimmarshallman63005 жыл бұрын

  LOVED this .... Always wondered how they worked ...... :)

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  @professorpatpending87315 жыл бұрын

  My father, born in 1919, told me about the cable trams that he often travelled on prior to world war two. Excellent footage and commentary.

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  @juliekemp4193 жыл бұрын

  My Dad was also born in 1919. Trams were so much a part of daily conversation and chat even for me b in 1948. My grandparents on both sides talked of them frequently - "catch the ..." "get of near the stop at ..." I loved listening to my "elders".

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  @JWMcLay2 ай бұрын

  ​@@juliekemp419So do I, I'm only 40, and trying to absorb and understand as much as I can. I enjoy hearing personal experiences, reflections and history in all it's layers, well at least some of the layers I mean

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  @jimbobeire6 жыл бұрын

  Nice bit of improvisation.

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  @deanjohnson12437 жыл бұрын

  defenatly my kind of fix I will be trying this.tip top 😁😎😁

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  @MuzzahA17 жыл бұрын

  Hi Michael I just got a copy of a 1988 documentary called "Commuting by Cable" about the Melbourne cable trams. It has all this footage in it and interviews/ commentary from the guy who filmed the footage plus runs for just under 1 hour. VHS only.

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  @MuzzahA17 жыл бұрын

  You can still get it from the library, have a look at the National Library of Australia. trove.nla.gov.au/work/22652121?selectedversion=NBD9593896

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  @horribleguts7 жыл бұрын

  Been a while since i watched a video tape. How things changed. Perhaps I could view it at the Library.

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  @jimmarshallman63005 жыл бұрын

  @@horribleguts "OLD"technology now .... ROFL!

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  @vsvnrg32634 жыл бұрын

  @@horribleguts ,our government public service should put it up on this youtube thingy.

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  @indriigunason9017 Жыл бұрын

  I bought a DVD copy on eBay a few months ago.

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  @tph25587 жыл бұрын

  Wow what a brilliant piece of history These cable cars sure put San Francisco Cable Cars in the limelight Sadly they never kept a line or two open would have been a fantastic tourist attraction

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  @Priyankar758 жыл бұрын

  Hello sir. This is Priyankar from Kolkata. I am in the management team of one of India's first attempt to make an exhibition on trams. We will be screening local, national and international short films and documentaries on trams and give the people a chance to relive the dying heritage of Kolkata. It would be great if we can have permission to screen this documentary the event. If you are interested, do get in touch with me at [email protected] anytime before 2nd of May, 2016. Thank you. Link to the event page: facebook.com/events/1709574172648818/

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  @horribleguts8 жыл бұрын

  +Priyankar Patra please show the film. The exhibition sounds fabulous (I have just read a little about CTC). For more Melbourne tram resources you can try Culture Victoria, Heritage Victoria (where I got this) and Melbourne Museum. www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/built-environment/melbourne-trams-step-aboard/reminiscences-of-cable-trams-in-melbourne/

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  @Priyankar758 жыл бұрын

  Thank you for the permission. The link was helpful too. Will keep you updated !

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  @swimminlane35668 жыл бұрын

  Brilliant thanks

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  @acohen19808 жыл бұрын

  fantastic post...thanx

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  @HMTMelbournePTGal8 жыл бұрын

  Amazing and informative video. We have come a long way.

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  @anthonylee583410 жыл бұрын

  thank you micheal great

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  @CowboyJojosAdventures10 жыл бұрын

  Brilliant Video and wonderful Footage. Thank you Neville.

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  @TramcarTrev10 жыл бұрын

  Thanks for posting this,

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  @bigbrotherrocks0610 жыл бұрын

  WOW talk about a history lesson. Thanks for putting this up. I've shared the video on my facebook page.

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  @horribleguts10 жыл бұрын

  Thanks. A large and fascinating system. Check out some of the material at heritage Victoria for info on tram-related places. www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/heritage/publications-and-research/thematic-and-typological-studies/tram-heritage-study

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  @tfdruid11 жыл бұрын

  A short section of track was discovered during roadworks in 2007. It's in North Melbourne, and runs along Abbotsford St between Spencer Street and the old engine house on Queensberry St. After the archaeologists did a survey of the site it was covered up again to preserve it, so all you can see is the median strip covered in wood chips, rather than the grass and street trees that were originally planned for it.

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  @tfdruid11 жыл бұрын

  A short section of track was discovered during roadworks in 2007. It's in North Melbourne, and runs along Abbotsford St between Spencer Street and the old engine house on Queensberry St. After the archaeologists did a survey of the site it was covered up again to preserve it, so all you can see is the median strip covered in wood chips, rather than the grass and street trees that were originally planned for it.

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  @tfdruid11 жыл бұрын

  Having real trouble getting 'reply' to work...

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  @juandalton917211 жыл бұрын

  Brisbane 2013. I was in Melbourne a couple of years ago and was dissappointed that I could not find the tracks. On my return home I found out on the internet that the tracks and cable slot was covered over due to roadworks. Has it all been uncovered. I walked the area. Please anwer me. John D'Alton. ============================

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  @johnd88923 жыл бұрын

  The remaining foot or so of cable tracks survived until about 1988 on Bourke Street near Spencer Street when it was torn up so the Bourke Street tram could go round the corner for the so called light rail track to st Kilda and port Melbourne. So destroyed by tram expansion.