📅 #OTD in 1908 The Coburg Leader reported that a deputation of inner-city councils waited on the Premier, Mr. Bent, to ask that the North Carlton station be re-opened for passenger traffic.
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📜 Source: Coburg Leader 📸 Thomas Bent, Premier 1904 – 1909 via @Library_Vic
🌳🌴🌴 DESTRUCTION OF A PARK! #OTD in 1899 The Argus reported strong opposition to the railway. Wellington Pde residents said "lovely ornamental plots... pines, peppermint, shade trees" would be ruthlessly chopped down. By November, construction work was well underway. #ICLfact
📰 TURNING THE FIRST SOD! On this day in 1886, the Mercury & Weekly Courier reported that the Mayor of Collingwood turned the first sod "of the miserable scraps of railway" which would connect Alphington - Collingwood, Clifton Hill - Coburg and the branch to Fitzroy. #ICLfact
100 years ago TODAY Melbourne's first electric passenger train ran from Flinders Street to Essendon, then Sandringham. By 1921 the Inner Circle had been electrified b/w Royal Park - Clifton Hill, apart from the line into Edinburgh Gardens #ICLfact (The Age, Shack West.) #ICLfact
ACMI is screening the German silent film "Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis", directed in 1927 by Walter Ruttmann, w/saxophone quartet https://t.co/oe3B7Pbipv live on stage. Use discount code BERLIN for cheaper tickets. Mon. 29th April @ 8:00 PM. Tix: https://t.co/dY6FpigTfO