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Tram Shelter

Other Name Tramway Reservation Location Dandenong Road CAULFIELD EAST, Glen Eira City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The Dandenong Road tramway and central reservation forms the key element in one of Melbourne's "landmark" boulevards, imparting character to this City and demonstrating the important early role of the Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust not only to the municipalities of Caulfield and Malvern but to all of Melbourne's south-eastern tramway suburbs. Its special importance and unique character at the State level is demonstrated by the P. & M. T. T.'s ornamental centre span poles and by the surviving passenger "rest house" at Hawthorn Road. The span poles are more decorated than the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board's later designs of the 1920's (in Fitzroy Street, Victoria Parade, Peel Street and at the Bylands tramway museum - ex William Street). They compare with the earlier British centre span poles in Pall Mall, Bendigo (now substantially altered) and are representative of the highest standards in electric street tramway construction practice during the Edwardian period.

The span poles also have local significance in that they recall the P. & M.T.T.'s practice of providing similar poles throughout its network of lines in 1910.