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Article : 30 wordsThe days of the old cable tram in Melbourne are numbered, and this busy thoroughfare will soon be converted into an electric tramway route. Work on a big scale began yesterday, when a section of the cable track (left) fronting the station, was demolished. By the end of next month, electric trams will be running from Swanston-street, along Flinders-street, to the opposite the Cathedral, which is meantime the terminus for the Richmond cable system. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 93 wordsMEN AT WORK TEARING UP THE OLD CABLE TRACK IN FLINDERS-STREET yesterday. They were the lucy ones from among a crowd of [?] who applied for jobs at 7 a.m. Only 40 laborers were required, and when the work is in full swing there will be employment for 200. Right: The policeman on point duty at the Cathedral corner will no longer be worried by cable cars, for the service stops now on the Richmond side of the intersection. It will not be long. however. before his task is complicated by two more lines of electric trams. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), Tue 17 May 1927, Page 1
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