Es on the main trunk

[Mal Rowe]

The annual Grand Prix circus took over a lot of Melbourne's trams over the weekend with regular passengers shunned in favour of the motor heads.

The changes meant that the E class made a rare appearance in Swanston St and St Kilda Rd.

A couple of pics ...

6093 on Princes Bridge - closed to all other traffic for both the Grand Prix and the Moomba festival.

6083 a D1 and another E in St Kilda Rd outside the National Gallery of Victoria.

Mal Rowe noting that the animated bird on the plantation seems to have little respect for the passengers

[tressteleg1]

Mal was not kidding about Regulars being shunned in favour of race goers. In fact all but a handful of tram routes were not affected. In fact anyone from the outer southern suburbs had to take 3 trams to get to Uni or north of Melbourne Central. Normally just one tram. And that includes Rt 1 truncated at Arts Centre. 

By chance I happened to be in Melbourne at GP time so decided to just how the specials ran. 

The worst deal was for the regular users of St Kilda Rd while I don’t imagine too many St Kilda Rts 12 and 96 regulars were excited by having a bus from Spencer St to their suburbs. 

Anyway this video covers St Kilda Rd/Swanston St.    https://youtu.be/Hdola3YkW1I

Richard

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