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Malvern Tram Depot

Location Coldblo Road,, MALVERN VIC 3144 - Property No B6152 File Number B6152 Level National

[1/1] B6152 Malvern Tram Depot

Statement of Significance

The former Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust, (P&MTT), depot at Coldblo Road, Malvern is important at the National level as a large, intact, operating electric tramway depot recalling the formative years of electric tramway undertakings in the country. It is important at the State level as Melbourne's first and largest electric tram depot of the various municipal trusts established prior to the formation of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (M&MTB), in 1919. It is important also for its associations with electric tramway services in Melbourne's eastern suburbs and is an imposing example of Edwardian industrial architecture recalling the status of the P & MTT at the time of its inception. It is of significance also as an expression of the period of consolidation and expansion of the metropolitan tramway system at the hands of the M & MTB.
Classified: 01/10/1990