Inside The Melbourne Cable Trams: How Australia's Largest Cable Network Was Lost

Inside The Melbourne Cable Trams: How Australia's Largest Cable Network Was Lost On the eleventh of November eighteen eighty five, the first cable tram rolled from Bourke Street. It grew into the largest cable network in the British Empire. At its nineteen twenty three peak it carried one hundred and fifty five million passengers a year. But on the twenty sixth of October nineteen forty, the Tramways Board ran the last tram in silence. It left Spencer Street at nine seventeen at night, to stop the crowds that wrecked earlier farewells. The cars were hauled off before dawn and broken up. Today, electric trams glide over the same Bourke Street rails. The last engine house still stands in Fitzroy. This is how a board scrapped the world's greatest cable system in the dark. #MelbourneCableTrams #Melbourne #LostAustralia #DemolishedHeritage #LostPlaces #AustralianHistory