Our city
(courtesy the colonial tramcar restaurant / eddie morton)
puts its coolest transferred to the Victorian government then passed to the Melbourne and and daggiest Metropolitan Tramways Board in 1919. foot forward In the early 1920s it became obvious that the cable system couldn’t accommodate our expanding city, so cable tramlines were progressively converted to electric trams. We identify ourselves by the number of the tram that takes us home more often than we do by our address. “What line are you on?” is as Basic essentials on the rails ... food, roaming and shelter quintessentially a Melbourne question as “What team do you barrack for?” Restaurant tram City Circle tram A single tram ride from one terminus to another will Enjoying a meal on a Tramcar Call me a freeloader, but this is the most enchanting way to reveal more about Melbourne than a Google search. Restaurant combines two essential show off the city’s highlights to a first-time visitor. The City My recent Saturday night journey on the No. 8 tram Melbourne experiences: taking a Circle tram is a free tourist tram that operates 10am-6pm from Moreland to Toorak was as choc-full of surprises, tram ride; and eating great food. every day except Christmas Day and Good Friday, departing characters, exits and entrances as any MTC play. The And if you can manage to take your every 12 minutes from several stops around the CBD. This noise and gesticulations of the freshly coiffed Brunswick eyes off the food and look out the W-class tram can be recognised for the gorgeous goddess teenagers on their way to the city segued into grumbling window, you get an eyeful of the she is by her burgundy colour scheme, the gold and cream and exhausted city workers going home after a day of city’s highlights lit up in all their trim and the dark-green roof. In a single loop you pass plenty retailing. At St Kilda Road, the arts precinct crowd fancy night-time bling. Thankfully, of CBD highlights \ raved about the Napoleon exhibition, while a man in a privacy is assured with one-way preposterously shiny suit studied his fingernails. People Heritage tram shelter windows so the rest of us can’t flew on and off like gulls landing on a bollard, while If you see one of these elegant heritage shelters, give gawk at you like meerkats as you only a couple of shadowy characters hung out the back yourself a few minutes to sit inside its warm, timber safety glide through the city streets and for the entire journey, steam escaping from their nostrils and think about the fact that you’re enjoying one of only on to South Melbourne, St Kilda, as they mumbled into their phones. nine listed on Victoria’s Heritage Register. They were built Inside a tram, Melbourne puts its coolest and daggiest Prahran and Malvern. These trams between 1912 and 1927 in a style based on Edwardian foot forward, refusing to kow-tow to any preconceived have become a distinctive feature domestic architecture. It’s always a little bewildering sitting notions of who we are or what we do. In this single of our city since the venture began in a heritage tram shelter, then stepping onto the latest moving carriage there’s an undeniable egalitarianism, in 1984, with the fleet now having sleek European Citadis tram, as though I the passenger, am a a sense of us being in this together, for better or worse, three vehicles, each with seating walking, talking link between the past and the present. \ richer or poorer. \ for 36 patrons. \ boomboom@rachelberger.com we welcome your feedback » www.theweeklyreview.com.au/ironic-iconic
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