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Route 109
Route 109
	C-Class tram C.3014 on MacArthur Street, September 2024
Overview
System	Melbourne
Operator	Yarra Trams
Depot	Kew
Vehicle	A class; C class
Began service	19 December 1993
Predecessors	Route 42, 111
Night-time	Friday & Saturday
Route
Start	Box Hill
Via	Whitehorse Road; Victoria Street; Collins Street
End	Port Melbourne
Length	19.3 kilometres
Timetable	Route 109 timetable
Map	Route 109 map
Route map
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Melbourne tram route 109 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network from Box Hill to Port Melbourne. The 19.3 kilometre route is operated out of Kew depot with A and C class trams.

History

The origins of route 109 lie in separate tram lines, a cable tram from Spencer Street to the Yarra River, a horse tram from the Yarra River to Kew Cemetery, an electric line from Kew Junction to Box Hill (extended over the years), as well as the Port Melbourne railway line.

A cable line was opened by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company from Spencer Street to Brunswick Street along Collins Street, MacArthur Street, Gisborne Street and Victoria Parade on 2 October 1886, and extended to the west side of the Yarra River along Victoria Parade and Victoria Street on 22 November 1886.^[1] A connecting horse tram was built from the east side of the Yarra River to Kew Cemetery, along Barkers Road, High Street South and High Street, opening on 28 December 1887.

The Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust (PMTT) opened a line from High Street to Burke Road along Cotham Road on 30 May 1913. On 1 November 1914 the PMTT received permission to convert the horse tram line to electric traction, and the new electric line was opened on 24 February 1915. The PMTT extended the Cotham Road line to Union Road, Mont Albert along Whitehorse Road, on 30 September 1916.^[2]^[3]

In 1929 the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) started converting the Collins Street cable lines to electric traction, with the last cable tram running down Collins Street on 14 September 1929, and the first electric tram on 8 December 1929. At the same time the MMTB built a new electric line down the centre of Victoria Parade to replace the cable line, which opened on 15 September 1929.^[4] For the next six decades the Melbourne to Mont Albert tram was numbered 42, celebrated by a 1982 theatrical production, Storming Mont Albert by Tram, which was performed on a specially-chartered Route 42 tram from the Mont Albert terminus to the city and return.^[5]

On 21 December 1987, route 111 commenced running from Exhibition (Carlton Gardens) at Nicholson Street to Port Melbourne along Bourke Street, Spencer Street and the former Port Melbourne railway line, following the conversion of the railway (along with the St Kilda line) to light rail.^[6]^[7]^[8] The broad gauge 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) track was re-gauged to standard gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) and the overhead voltage was reduced from 1500 V DC to 600 V DC with light rail platforms built adjacent to or near the former stations platforms.

On 19 December 1993, routes 42 and 111 were combined as route 109.^[9]^[10]^[11] Route 42 continued to run as a peak-hour variant of route 109, and from 18 November 2002, the route deviated from route 109 and ran between Box Hill and the Collins Street West extension in Docklands.^[12] From 28 June 2004 until 21 November 2005, the route was truncated back to Spencer Street while Spencer Street station (now Southern Cross station) was redeveloped.^[13] It was extended further along the Collins Street extension to Victoria Harbour (Merchant Street) on 21 September 2009.^[14]^[6] At this point, the route ran one morning trip and three afternoon trips from Box Hill to Victoria Harbour and then back to Box Hill.^[15] Route 42 was last listed as an official route in late 2010 / early 2011 before it gradually disappeared without an official announcement.^[16]

When Station Pier was refurbished in 1999, tram tracks were laid to allow for route 109 to be extended onto the pier, but have never been connected.^[17]

The line was extended from its original terminus at Mont Albert to Box Hill along Whitehorse Road for 2.2 kilometres on 2 May 2003.^[18]^[19]^[20] In January 2016, route 109 began operating through the night on Fridays and Saturdays as part of the Night Network.^[21]

Route

Route 109 runs from Box Hill, travelling west on Whitehorse Road through the suburbs of Mont Albert, Surrey Hills, Balwyn and Deepdene. Entering Kew at Burke Road, Whitehorse Road becomes Cotham Road. It continues west, through Kew Junction and then south west along High Street, High Street South and turns west into Barkers Road.

It crosses the Yarra River into Victoria Street, Richmond and continues west, at Hoddle Street Victoria Street becomes Victoria Parade, it passes through St Vincent's Plaza, passing St Vincent's Hospital, the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and turns south onto Gisborne Street, continues south west along MacArthur Street and turns west into Collins Street, entering the CBD, passing Melbourne Town Hall and City Square.

It turns south into Spencer Street, passing Southern Cross station, then crosses the Yarra River and enters Southbank on Clarendon Street before traversing the suburbs of South Melbourne and Port Melbourne on a right-of-way using the former Port Melbourne railway line and terminates at Port Melbourne railway station near Station Pier.

Operation

Route 109 is operated out of Kew depot with A and C1 class trams.^[22] For a period from 2002, some services were also operated by Southbank depot.^[23]^[24]

Route map

Route 109

Box Hill - Port Melbourne
via Mont Albert, City & Southbank
Free tram zone covers stops 124 to 8, fare zone 1 from
stop 57 to 10, 124A to 129, fare zone 2 from stop 57 to 47

Suburb

Street

Stop

No.

Box Hill

Connections

Box Hill

Whitehorse Road

58

Box Hill Central

Box Hill

Box Hill station ●●

57

Nelson Road

56

Elgar Road

Mont Albert

Whitehorse Road

55

Hood Street

54

Inglisby Road

Surrey Hills

Whitehorse Road

53

Union Road

284, 612

51

Narrak Road

50

Wharton Street

Balwyn

Whitehorse Road

49

Northcote Avenue

48

Balwyn Shopping Centre

47

Balwyn Road

285

Zone 1+2

Zone 1

46

Balwyn Cinema

45

Hardwicke Street

Deepdene

Whitehorse Road

44

Deepdene Park

43

Deepdene Shopping Centre

42

Burke Road

72;

548

Burke Road

Tram 72

Melbourne University

Kew

Cotham Road

41

Kew Traffic School

40

St George's Hospital

548

39

Thomas Street

38

Marshall Avenue

37

Belmont Avenue

36

Glenferrie Road

16

Glenferrie Road

Tram 16

Melbourne University

35

Charles Street

609

34

High Street

High Street

Tram 48

Balwyn North

Kew

High Street

33

Cotham Road

48

32

Kew Junction

200, 207, 609

31

Stevenson Street

Church Street

Tram 48

Victoria Harbour

Hawthorn

Barkers Road

29

High Street

48

Kew tram depot

27

Findon Crescent

Richmond

Victoria Street

25

River Boulevard

Victoria Gardens Siding

24

Victoria Gardens

12

23

Leslie Street

22

McKay Street

21

Church Street

78

Church Street

Tram 78

Balaclava

20

Lennox Street

19

North Richmond station

North Richmond station ●●

East Melbourne

Victoria Parade

18

Hoddle Street

Hoddle Street buses

16

Wellington Street

15

Smith Street

13

Lansdowne Street

St Vincent's Plaza Siding

Brunswick Street

Tram 11

West Preston

12

St Vincent's Plaza

Victoria Parade

Tram 30

La Trobe Street

Gisborne Street

11

Albert Street

Macarthur Street

10

Parliament station

Parliament Station ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

Spring Street

Tram 48, City Circle

Wellington Parade

Nicholson Street

Melbourne CBD

8

7

605

Swanston Street

Tram 1, 3, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72

St Kilda Road

Melbourne University

6

Town Hall

1, 3, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72

Elizabeth Street

Tram 19, 57, 59

Flinders Street station

North Melbourne

5

Elizabeth Street

19, 57, 59

3

William Street

58;

Queen Street buses

William Street

Tram 58

Toorak

West Coburg

1

Southern Cross station

11, 48, 96

Southern Cross station

●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

●●●●●●●●●●●●●

Spencer Street

Tram 96

Bourke Street

Collins Street

Tram 11, 48

Docklands

Flinders Street

Tram 70, 75, City Circle

Wattle Park/Vermont South

Docklands

Flinders Street Viaduct

Spencer Street

124

Batman Park

Southbank

Clarendon Street

124A

Casino/MCEC

12

Clarendon Street

Tram 12

St Kilda (Fitzroy Street)

Normanby Road

125

Clarendon Street Junction

96

St Kilda Light Rail

Tram 96

St Kilda Beach

South Melbourne

Normanby Road

125A

Southbank tram depot

126

Montague Street

Port Melbourne

Station Street

127

North Port

128

Graham Street

129

Beacon Cove

236, PPC

Suburb

No.

Stop Name (Road Name)

Connections

Note: Green denotes free tram zone

Bus route

When cruise ships are berthed at Station Pier, Transit Systems Victoria operate a parallel bus service as route 109 between Station Pier and Queens Bridge St. ^[25]

References

^ Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company Limited Running Journal volume 9 no 3 page 16
^ Milestones, 1911 - 1920 Yarra Trams
^ History of the Mont Albert Tramway Transit Australia June 2003 pages 154-159
^ Milestones, 1921 - 1930 Yarra Trams
^ Storming Mont Albert by Tram - Melbourne Moomba Festival Theatre Works: St Kilda
^ ^a ^b "History of Melbourne Tram Routes from 1950 to 2009" (PDF). Yarra Trams. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2012.
^ Jones, Colin (1993). Watch for Trams. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press. p. 118. ISBN 0-86417-544-2.
^ Milestones, 1981 - 1990 Yarra Trams
^ The Met Fleetline issue 221 December 1993 page 264
^ National Bus Company Australian Bus Panorama issue 9/5 January 1994 page 31
^ Melbourne News Trolley Wire issue 256 February 1994 page 23
^ "Timetable Changes to Collins Street Services". Yarra Trams. 29 November 2002. Archived from the original on 6 December 2002.
^ Temporary Closure of Collins Street Extension Yarra Trams
^ Changes to Routes 48 & 70 from Sunday 20 September 2009 Yarra Trams
^ "Route 42 timetable" (PDF). Metlink. 20 September 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2009.
^ "42 - Box Hill - Victoria Harbour Docklands". Metlink. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011.
^ Station Pier Tramway Extension Transit Australia February 2002 pages 54/55
^ Box Hill Extension Opening Yarra Trams 2 May 2003
^ Mont Albert - Box Hill Tramway Extension Opens Transit Australia July 2003 pages 179-186
^ Mont Albert - Box Hill tram extension opened Railway Digest June 2003 page 11
^ Night Tram Public Transport Victoria
^ Kew Depot Vicsig
^ Kew Depot Transit Australia October 2002 page 274
^ Melbourne's longest routes The Bellcord issue 52 December 2021 page 4
^ 109 Port Melbourne - Casino East-Queens Bridge St (Cruise ship bus shuttle) Public Transport Victoria

External links

Media related to Melbourne tram route 109 at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company Limited Running Journal volume 9 no 3 page 16

[2] Milestones, 1911 - 1920 Yarra Trams

[3] History of the Mont Albert Tramway Transit Australia June 2003 pages 154-159

[4] Milestones, 1921 - 1930 Yarra Trams

[5] Storming Mont Albert by Tram - Melbourne Moomba Festival Theatre Works: St Kilda

[number-6] "History of Melbourne Tram Routes from 1950 to 2009" (PDF). Yarra Trams. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2012.

[7] Jones, Colin (1993). Watch for Trams. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press. p. 118. ISBN 0-86417-544-2.

[8] Milestones, 1981 - 1990 Yarra Trams

[9] The Met Fleetline issue 221 December 1993 page 264

[10] National Bus Company Australian Bus Panorama issue 9/5 January 1994 page 31

[11] Melbourne News Trolley Wire issue 256 February 1994 page 23

[12] "Timetable Changes to Collins Street Services". Yarra Trams. 29 November 2002. Archived from the original on 6 December 2002.

[13] Temporary Closure of Collins Street Extension Yarra Trams

[14] Changes to Routes 48 & 70 from Sunday 20 September 2009 Yarra Trams

[15] "Route 42 timetable" (PDF). Metlink. 20 September 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2009.

[16] "42 - Box Hill - Victoria Harbour Docklands". Metlink. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011.

[17] Station Pier Tramway Extension Transit Australia February 2002 pages 54/55

[18] Box Hill Extension Opening Yarra Trams 2 May 2003

[19] Mont Albert - Box Hill Tramway Extension Opens Transit Australia July 2003 pages 179-186

[20] Mont Albert - Box Hill tram extension opened Railway Digest June 2003 page 11

[21] Night Tram Public Transport Victoria

[22] Kew Depot Vicsig

[23] Kew Depot Transit Australia October 2002 page 274

[24] Melbourne's longest routes The Bellcord issue 52 December 2021 page 4

[25] 109 Port Melbourne - Casino East-Queens Bridge St (Cruise ship bus shuttle) Public Transport Victoria

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