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The White Hat Guide to the Melbourne Tram Museum
The Melbourne Tram Museum contains a significant collection of heritage trams in the historic Hawthorn Tram Depot. The museum is home to 21 fully-restored trams including: - a ‘toast-rack’ bodied V-class from 1906 – one of the first electrified trams in Melbourne
- several versions of the iconic Melbourne W-class trams
- the experimental X-class tram designed for lightly patronised routes
- the prototype of the Z-class which marked the steady modernisation of the fleet when it was introduced in 1975.
Encounter a part of the history of Melbourne at a unique heritage location. You can reach the museum on tram numbers 70 or 75. Admission by donation. The museum is open on the second Saturday of the month and the opening hours are: - October to March: 11am to 5pm
- April to September: 1pm to 5pm
Full details at Friends of the Hawthorn Tram Depot. Click on the the Melbourne Tram Museum link to the right of the map. Use the controls to zoom in or out on the map or change to satellite view.
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SCIENCE NEWS
Australia's first female Nobel Prize Winner
White Hat congratulates
Dr Elizabeth
Blackburn on becoming Australia's first female
Nobel Prize Winner.
Readers of our site will know that we have predicted that she would
become a Nobel Prize winner for some time and that Elizabeth
Blackburn has long been on our list of
200 Significant
Australians and 100
Important Living Australians despite the National Trust Living
Treasures list passing over her and people like Fields Medal winner
Terry Tao in favour of
minor media presenters. Congratulations Dr Blackburn from those many
thousands who studied science and Melbourne University along with
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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