Surely if there was the will they could reinstate trams!! Better this metro thing!!

Those were happy days

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

I loved going to the city on these trams from the Belmont terminus as a kid. Brisbane began to lose its soul after they were scrapped.

used these till i was 9

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.

What year was this?

Thank you for a quaint and rustic look at a bygone era.

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

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.

Soooo good. Thanks for the upload. 👍👌❤️❤️

Yeeeeaah - my dad was a trammie ( conductor ) and i remeber going to ipswich road with mum to pick him up after his shift

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?

HE IS THE BEST!!!

Nice film ! From when dates it ? Rt. N° 71... Why did they use such "high" route numbers ? Thanks from Germany !

I'm a tram and I approve this video! Ding ding!

Then they named the tunnel after the silly old goat who had the tram lines ripped up. Foolish short sighted male

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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.

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.

Do these run on electricity anybody know ?

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 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.

I bet all those tracks are still there under layers of bitumen.

It looks faster than the ones in Melbourne

At 00:18 "climb over a low bridge"? I don't remember a bridge anywhere on Ipswich Road. There was an overhead Railway bridge just down from W'Gabba.

Amazing would love to see this Shakespeare play.

a crime to have removed these tram routes.

Got dusty in here.

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.

Vincents and Bex destroyed many kidneys👊🏿

Would be great to see it today for comparison!

I see Beaudesert road moorooka. I lived there for 2 months.

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.

1964 and 1967 Holdens in that pic.

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

I lived at the junction of Beaudesert and Ipswich Roads (Tram stop 33), where the tram tracks left Ipswich Rd outbound and started up Beaudesert Rd. Trucks, cars and most frequently bicycles (especially the thin-tyred semi-racers) would on coming inbound on Ipswich Rd, would encounter the tram tracks at the junction. On encountering the smooth trams tracks, the vehicles with bald tyres would slide or swerve erratically and sometimes collide with other vehicles or, with trucks , overturn resulting in some terrible crashes - amputations etc. The semi-racers were often caught in the grooves of the tracks resulting in tumbles or collisions with larger vehicles.

Drive through Old Cleveland Rd. Camp Hill. Tracks still there. Just before my time. How my oldies got to work/everywhere.

There are still roads in Brisbane with old tram tracks. The only remnants of that era. When you see the low volume of traffic back then you can understand why they might have disappeared. Different story now though. Brisbane has changed. We will be like Sydney or Melbourne soon. Very sad.

Nice.

Pretty sure Clem killed the trams.

Some areas around Brisbane the tramlines are still there. Shame the trams have stoped.

Fantastic memories. Our urban lifeline, loved travelling by tram, which growing up in the 60's was a regular and increasingly until their scrapping, everyday event.