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Melbourne cable tramway system

Index Melbourne cable tramway system

The Melbourne cable tramway system was a cable car public transport system, which operated between 1885 and 1940 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [1]

35 relations: Andrew Smith Hallidie, Australia, Australian Railway History, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Box Hill, Victoria, Bridge Road, Melbourne, Brighton, Victoria, Brunswick Street, Melbourne, Cable car (railway), Chapel Street, Melbourne, Chicago City Railway, Doncaster, Victoria, Dunedin, Dunedin cable tramway system, Essendon, Victoria, Flinders Street, Melbourne, George Smith Duncan, Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Hawthorn Bridge, Johnston Street Bridge, Melbourne, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company, Nicholson Street, Melbourne, Panel beater, Public transport, San Francisco cable car system, Spencer Street, Melbourne, St Kilda railway station, St Kilda Road, Melbourne, United States, Victoria (Australia), Victoria Street, Melbourne, Victorian Railways, Yarra Trams.

Andrew Smith Hallidie

Andrew Smith Hallidie (March 16, 1836 – April 24, 1900) was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, USA.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Railway History

Australian Railway History is a monthly magazine covering railway history in Australia published by the New South Wales Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society on behalf of its seven state and territory Divisions.

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Bourke Street, Melbourne

Bourke Street is one of the main streets of Melbourne's Central Business District (CBD) and a core feature of the Hoddle Grid.

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Box Hill, Victoria

Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Central Business District.

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Bridge Road, Melbourne

Bridge Road is a major shopping strip in Melbourne, Australia.

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Brighton, Victoria

Brighton is an affluent coastal suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district.

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Brunswick Street, Melbourne

Brunswick Street is a street in inner northern Melbourne, known for cafés, live music venues and alternative fashion shops.

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Cable car (railway)

A cable car (cable tram elsewhere, apart from North America) is a type of cable transportation used for mass transit where rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.

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Chapel Street, Melbourne

Chapel Street is a shopping, dining and entertainment precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Chicago City Railway

The Chicago City Railway Company (CCRy) was an urban transit company that operated horse, cable, and electric streetcars on Chicago’s South Side between 1859 and 1914, when it became merged into and part of the Chicago Surface Lines (CSL) metropolitan-wide system.

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Doncaster, Victoria

Doncaster is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District.

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Dunedin

Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago region.

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Dunedin cable tramway system

The Dunedin cable tramway system was a group of cable tramway lines in the New Zealand city of Dunedin.

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Essendon, Victoria

Essendon /ˈɛsǝndǝn/, is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km north-west of Melbourne's central business district.

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Flinders Street, Melbourne

Flinders Street is a notable street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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George Smith Duncan

George Smith Duncan (11 July 1852 – 4 September 1930) was a tramway and mining engineer best known for his work on cable trams, and for his work in the gold mining industry.

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Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Gertrude Street is a street in the inner northern suburb of Fitzroy, Melbourne.

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Hawthorn Bridge

The Hawthorn Bridge is a wrought iron truss bridge across the Yarra River, east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Johnston Street Bridge

Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge crossing the Yarra River in Collingwood, a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board

The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) was a government-owned authority that was responsible for the tram network in Melbourne, Australia between 1919 and 1983, when it was merged into the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

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Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company

The Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company (MTOC) was the company which established and operated Melbourne's cable tram system from 1885 to 1916.

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Nicholson Street, Melbourne

Nicholson Street is a street in inner Melbourne.

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Panel beater

A panel beater is a term used in some Commonwealth countries to describe a person who repairs vehicle bodies back to their factory state after having been damaged (e.g., after being involved in a collision).

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.

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San Francisco cable car system

The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system.

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Spencer Street, Melbourne

Spencer Street is a major street and thoroughfare in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria.

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St Kilda railway station

St Kilda railway station is a former railway station and current tram stop, located in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, Australia, and was the terminus of the St Kilda railway line of the Melbourne suburban rail system.

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St Kilda Road, Melbourne

St Kilda Road is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria Street, Melbourne

Victoria Street is one of the major thoroughfares of inner Melbourne, running east-west for over six kilometres between Munster Terrace in North Melbourne and the Yarra River.

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Victorian Railways

The Victorian Railways operated in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983.

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Yarra Trams

Yarra Trams is the trading name of the tram network in Melbourne, which is owned by VicTrack and leased to Yarra Trams by Public Transport Victoria on behalf of the Government of Victoria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_cable_tramway_system

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