Memories of Launceston's trams.

Yes that Barbara Streisand song is in my memory bank today when I read Alison Andrews article in today's "Examiner" It was on Launceston's Trams which ran from 1911 to December 1952. I must have been 2 or 3 years old because I wasn't walking at that stage and have a very vivid memory of going on to a tram with my parents to my aunt's residence in Wentworth Street. We got on in Charles Street, outside the CTA Club, where the Target store is now and tram turned into Brisbane Street and then went up High Street and stopped at Wentworth Street, where High Street ends and Talbot Road commences. I remember the distinctive sound and smell of the tram and this was the only occasion I traveled on them. When I came to St. Giles in October 1952, they must have been running but I can't remember them.

Hobart had trams for another 10 years and I remember getting on at Seymour Street on the New Town line and going into Hobart.Their trams hissed and were far more noisier than Launceston's.

Robin

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