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Seen at work this afternoon with the Adelaide St Kilda Tram Museum was former car 42, a 1909 B-Type toastrack. There were thirty toastracks in the inital order for one hundred B-type cars. They were very popular for summer beach traffic, less so in bad weather and most were converted to combination trams in 1917. Car 42 was rebuilt with straight sided centre saloons with three large windows (A2-Type) and operated on the isolated Port Adelaide system until it closed in 1935. It was retained at Hackney Depot as a store until donated to the Museum in 1958 since when it has been rebuilt to its original Toastrack configuration and returned to service in 1994. It is seen here at the terminus of the line from the Museum to a children's adventure park and picnic venue by the sea. Three trams were taking it in turns to run the service parallel to St Kilda Road and the seafront, 42, Adelaide 1929 H-type 351 and Melbourne Class W 1031.
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