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Former Port Melbourne Cable Tram Car Shed

Location 65 Beach Street,, PORT MELBOURNE VIC 3207 - Property No B6496 File Number B6496 Level Demolished/Removed

[1/1] B6496 Cable Tram Car Shed

Statement of Significance

The Port Melbourne Car Shed (1890) is of historic and architectural significance at a State level as the most intact car shed of Melbourne's former cable tram system, the most extensive cable tram system in the world operated by a single authority. It contains the sole surviving in situ remnants of tracks of the cable tram system. Designed by architects Twentyman and Askew for the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company, it is typical of the form and construction of their cable tram buildings.
Classified: 16/02/1994