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Former Cable Tram Engine Shed

Location 357-361 City Road,, SOUTH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 - Property No B3938 File Number B3938 Level Regional

[1/1] B3938 Former Cable Tram Engine

Statement of Significance

A large single-storey building decorated in polychromatic brick work. Constructed in 1889 as the engine house for the Port Melbourne and South Melbourne cable tram systems and subsequently redeveloped for other purposes. The building is one of the better preserved of the seven surviving separate engine houses in Melbourne, the largest surviving artefact associated with the cable system in this part of the city. It isa reminder both of an earlier form of transport and the extent of the system which was unusually large and complex by world standards.
Classified: 11/08/1977