Who signed off on scrapping the whole tram network? Idjits. You’se could’ve had a vast suburban tram network by now, to rival Melbourne. Actually no one can rival Melbournes tram network. Ya Banana Benders. Didn’t think that one through did ya’s. 🍌
The then Major of Brisbane Clem Jones said, get the trams off the roads and get the cars on. I’ll never forget. I saw the last tram going up Ipswich Road from a high floor of the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Used the 71 every day there and back from State High after leaving Moorooka State School. I’d get off at the beginning of Evans Road opposite what used to be English Electric. Occasionally I’d fall asleep on the way home from school and miss my stop so the conductor had to wake me up at the Salisbury terminus!
I knew the 71 route well as a teenager. My dad even worked at English Electric for about 10 years till about 1967. My brother and I and two sisters all went to Salisbury State then Salisbury High Schools. Ah, the memories - good times.
I'm 62 now, I think brisbane today has gone backwards in so many ways compared to when I was a kid. I love the trams and the old houses and the way of life then.
Interesting, my great grandfather, Shearwin was brought up from Sydney to Brisbane to electrify the Trams of Brisbane around the turn of the twentyth century.
We occasionally caught a tram from Moorvale to Chardons corner for school (Yeronga High). Great memories.I even remember seeing a steam engine crossing near wooloongabba once. What a mess of wires the five ways was. The best experience had to be the rubber tyre trolley buses running along Kangaroo Point across the bridge. So silent and smooth.
I honestly don't understand how a noisy tram with no suspension, wires, electrical infrastructure and fixed tracks was considered a good idea? It was costly and maintenace intensive. There were petrol cars driving around, why not have buses with rubber tires, less noise, no wires, no electrical infrastructure and the freedom to travel anywhere...........
Back in the day, when Australia had it's own industry, Evans Deaken, huge company, now what have we got?zilch,apart from the looney government saying we should be the industrial country for the future, pfffftttt what a laugh, everything comes from china, our industry, coffee shops 2$ shops and pandering to the UN
Thank goodness I had tram rides’ the whole of my school years’. Lived at a Section, which was cool, then tram to school’s gate. After that, caught trains’ to work. Hated busses’, still do. They’re a bloomin’ nuisance to car traffic, & horrible to ride in. At least the trams’ were in the middle of the road, which allowed cars’ to get past them easily.
I remeber the trams. I could walk up Chatsworth Road, and catch a Trolleybus to Cav Rd High, or walk down to Logan road and get a tram to marshall road and go to school. Used to walk past where the bowling alley was at Greeenslopes
A quest for all brisbane tram enthusiasts: wikipedia says that brill and single trucker(not baby dreadnoughs) cars survived into the 50s. Is this real? Does somebody have testimoniances about it?
A quest for all brisbane tram enthusiasts: wikipedia says that brill and single trucker(not baby dreadnoughs) cars survived into the 50s. Is this real? Does somebody have testimoniances about it?
Compo Road Salisbury became Evens rd. I worked at Kaus Brothers in the one of the old munitions buildings. Found an old munitions shell under the building
@@ENDAOLIVERBRACKEN From your pics of the low set wooden factory, I'm pretty sure my mother worked in those buildings when they would have been bought by Astra Pharmaceuticals in the 1960's.
Trams were in Brisbane before my time,but my mum told me when she was young and working,she used to get a tram from red Hill to evans road sailsbury,where she worked in a factory.good to see the landscape and the way things used to be.
Your mother would have had to change trams before the Victoria Bridge in order to catch the tram to Salisbury. Likewise on the return journey she would have changed trams after the Victoria Bridge to catch the Bardon Tram. Time-consuming but faster and cheaper than modern times - even before the cross river tunnels and newer bridges.
@@ENDAOLIVERBRACKEN the tram they turned into a public toilet thought it was a great idea,it's a great memorial of the trams,i actually used that toilet. Another memory is the tram tracks that are still at Carina today.
I came to Brisbane in '75, after the trams. I live very close to Cornwall St, I didn't know about the Ipswich Rd depot. Presumably that's where the Buranda shopping centre is now, just across from the PA?
Are these the trams with the two 'bug eye' mirrors at the front of the inside vestibule? These were all before my time but my mother used to ride these from Annerley to school as a kid. Not long before she passed away we took her to the tram museum at Ferny Grove where she excitedly climbed into a tram and exclaimed "This was my favourite seat!" and its from then I recall the two mirrors that the driver(?) used to check for passengers.
Yes they were. The footage was filmed in the mid 1960s as a training film for drivers and conductors. Fare-dodgers were always an issue for conductors, especially in wet weather, when the trams were packed 9and people hung on, standing on running boards or leaning out while standing on the edge of the floor. The partial solution (for the conductors/ticket sellers) took the form of the bug-eyed mirrors. Ironically the trams were doomed to finish by 1969.
My son was born in 1992 with disabilities and attended Xavier special school the tram and bus union would take all the disable kids to the ekka every year.it was still called tram and bus union although trams stopped in 1969.
Yes - the Tram and Bus Union also built the "House of Happiness" on Bribie Island fro disabled kids. In the 1970s I was a teacher-in-charge of Caboolture Opportunity Classes and then Kuraby Special School - and we utilised the H. of H. from those educational units.
I came to Brisbane with my family when I was 11 years of age in 1958. After settling in, I went to school in Fortitude Valley yet Lived at East Brisbane. Each morning I caught the Ascot tram and travelled west through Woolloongabba, South Brisbane, then north through the city into the Valley, Then return home after school on the Balmoral bound train as far as East Brisbane. That was the highlight of my every day!
I left Melbourne to live in Brisbane in 1954, my parents had a War Service house in Stafford, not far from the Stafford tram terminus. I went to Stafford State School. I never wore shoes and socks, bare feet for kids was the fashion. In 1955 we went back to cold Melbourne.
I remember the strong protests in Brisbane when Lord Mayor Clem Jones decided to abolish the Brisbane City trams. Biggest and worst mistake Brisbane ever did. I remember when going to work in 1971 the tram lines shown in this video being ripped up and the roads being resealed. A very sad era. And Brisbane is paying for that mistake now with traffic congestion and the interruption to the public transport system.
What a disgusting fake this is. Bogus sentiment. Bogus humanism. Dripping effete hypocritical sentiment. Gloablist disinformation and propaganda now using fake Shakespeare.This speech is purportedly taken from an anonymous manuscript miraculously discovered in the eighteenth century! Liberals and globalists claim that this speech which was they say "banned" by the Queen's censor, is by Shakespeare. This claim suits the liberal agenda perfectly. What is their evidence that it is by Shakespeare? Since no handwritten copies of Shakespeare's plays exist (strangely Thomas Moore is the only handwritten Elizabethan play miraculously to survive down to our day!) the claim that this is by Shakespeare is practically non existent. It doesnt sound like Shakespeare, it sounds like someone trying to sound likeShakespeare. The "evidence" as liberals call it, produced is by comparing single letters of the alphabet in the Thomas Moore manuscript to the six half signatures of William Shakspear of Stratford upon Avon from his will and deeds of sale and claiming from some of the letters in the manuscript compared to the six half signatures, that writer "D" in the Moore manuscript are similarly curved (!!) and therefore part of the play Thomas Moore and of course what a coincidence! the letters curved the same way include the letters in this nice "love refugees" speech which therfore must be by Shakespeare. That is what is called "evidence". Of course this is all made to serve a political end. The liberal message is this "If you like Shakespeare you should know that he would have welcomed millions of refugees to Britain." I don't think Shakespeare, the writer of Henry V, would have welcomed refugees in their millions to Britain. I think he would have called that an invasion. I think he would have approved if "Sir" Ian MacKellan and other treacherous wealthy subversives were arrested for treason.
Bring back the trams I say! And the way they could just roll up the sides in summer for cross ventilation is a brilliant idea for our climate. the need for air conditioning is diminished with thoughtful design. Like the old Queenslander style of house with high ceilings, verandha's, transoms & stilts. Now just add a big Mango tree on the South West corner and you're set for Summer. But the modern sweat-boxes they slap up (and the Houses are just as bad as the Units) are unlivable without air-con in the hooter months.
Those trams were alright until they were made with open sides and they just lowered a thin plank of wood to enclose passengers. When I was twelve a skinny girl the trammy didn't lower the boom and I was shoved out onto the road, the tram not going fast, but I was a mess. Will not forget that.
Yes, Nancy - certainly, in the 1950s and 1960s (and throughout WW2 with the USA forces here) in gusty, rainy weather, there was an increased demand for trams as walking was impossible - - and so the older "toast-rack" trams you describe were wheeled out. Sometimes they had huge canvas advertising sheets unrolled to protect the seated passengers - but people getting on and off these trams had to lift them.
Funny ,that is how my science teacher taught me about Inertia .You used to be able to step off the tram while it was still moving, We caught the Logan Rd trams.Every time a tram made a stop the cars had to stop too.
dont yah Just Love busses sitting engines running parked for hr Fumes as you pass *Adelaide jump on tram Free in city*👍✝ Huge twin busses runing around with 5-10 people max on them when a 20 seater small bus do it cheaper No brains working in the industry wasting fuel and recourses let alone the pollution they pump out parked in side lanes for hours engines running wtf then some run red lights like ? im late fook 2 have nearly taken me out action 6" more i be dead
