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= //Public Transport History//       = ====Public Transport Home Page  //| **History of Transport** |// Modern Day Transport//|// Myki // | People's Opinions  | Southern Cross and Flinders Street Stations  | Mind Map | [|Reflective Blog] | Research Task | Bibliography //       <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">   ==== <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">//History of Trams// ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">//<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">The first ever trams were horse-drawn ones, this was before 1885. The cable-hauled tram system then began on the 11th of November 1885 when the Richmond line opened, because of traffic. The council of Melbourne then constructed a system of cable-hauled tram ways between 1885 and 1891. For the next 50 years that was what these trams were like, after that they changed over to an electrical tram system. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">The first electric tram to run in Australia was in 1888 at the Carlton gardens, but was not successful. But then in 1996 electric trams came back to stay with the opening of the Victorian Tramway from St Kilda to Brighton. North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company opened routes from Flemington Bridge to Essendon and the Maribymong River. During the second decade of this century several districts formed trusts and built electric tramways within the areas. Prahran and Malvern trusts opened lines in 1910. Hawthorn Tramway and Melbourne’s Brunswick’s Tramway and Coburg’s tramways trust formed in 1916. Footscray tramways trust and Fitzroy and Northcote and Preston tramways trusts were well under way in construction in 1920 when the government established the metropolitan tramways. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">Early 1854 Cobb and Co extended its coach-lines to the Victorian goldfields. Work was well underway on the first railway line to open in Victoria. It was from Melbourne to Sandbridge (now known as Port Melbourne) built by Melbourne and Hobson’s Bay Railway. It formed in August 1852. The railway line opened on the 12th September 1854. The first steam train to leave Flinders Street Station was at 12:20 pm, it had two first-class and one second-class carriage for its passengers. The Victorian Railway Line Department formed on the 19th of March 1856. It then made another line to St Kilda and it opened on the 13th of May 1857 without stations. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">Transport impacted on Victoria and skills like engineering and building expertise were developed as the need grew to manufacture trains rather than dependant imports, these skills have strengthened Victoria’s reputation as the manufacturing centre of Australia. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">The electrification of the Melbourne train network began in early December 1913. The First World War delayed the project but by halfway through 1915 progress had been made. In 1916 it was announced that train drivers, guards and shunters would be trained to handle electric trains. At the end of 1919 electric trains were running on the St Kilda and Port Melbourne lines followed by Williamstown and Fawkner lines in 1920. North Fitzroy reservoir, Heidelberg and other suburban lines were connected to electric trains. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">For nearly one and a half centuries, horse-drawn and automotive bus services have been an important feature of Victoria’s transport requirements. Up until the late 1860s, small horse-drawn omnibuses and cabs which were mostly individually owned were the first form of public transport for Melbourne. In 1896 the First Fleet type operation started. Melbourne’s omnibus company began the bus service with 11 horse-drawn buses. They carried passengers from the city via Bourke St via Fitzroy Birmingham Hotel at the corner of Smith and Johnston’s Streets. Services and prices were popular with travellers that buses soon ran to Richmond, Carlton and North Melbourne. Suburban development encouraged the company to expand its network and by 1881 its fleet consisted of 150 horse-drawn buses each carrying 12 to 14 seated passengers. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">Construction of the City Loop started in 1971; it was opened with the completion of Flagstaff Station in 1985. Before the city loop, 90% of all passengers travelling to the city went through Flinders Street Station; this caused problems with over crowding on trains. The city loop today provides five stations to stop at around the CBD. These stations are Parliament, Flagstaff, Melbourne Central, Southern Cross and Flinders Street Stations. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">It all began with the discovery of gold in Victoria, which gave birth to Melbourne as a city. This meant that transport became an issue, this is time lead to Melbourne to having the first railway line. The first railway line was officially opened on the 12th September 1854. It was opened by the privately owned Hobson’s Bay Railway Company, and ran between Flinders Street and Sandbridge (now known as port Melbourne). Victoria’s railways have expanded with the city and will continue to do so. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"> // <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">//<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">In the second half on the nineteenth century the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company was formed to build a sixty two kilometre line to Geelong. This plan was approved by the government and the first turf was laid on the 20th of September 1853. The Gold Rush was on at this time, which meant that there were labour shortages, so the government employed 100 prisoners instead to build the Geelong line. Construction was completed on the 8th of June 1857 when the last rail was placed at the current day sight of Laverton Station. The line was then officially opened two weeks later, with a street procession and the first carriage leaving for Geelong with the Governor inside. // <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">  <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Public Transport Home Page <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> //| **History of Transport** |// Modern Day Transport<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> //|// Myki //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> | <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">People's Opinions <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> | <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Southern Cross and Flinders Street Stations  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">| Mind Map | [|Reflective Blog] | Research Task | Bibliography //  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">
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 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'">History of Trains **
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