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Preston Workshops and New Preston Depot

Preston Workshops at the corner of St George's Road and Miller Street it was once the main workshops for the M&MTB, but following privatisation in the 1990s it became a dumping ground for W class trams. In 2016 it was reborn as 'New Preston Depot' - a running depot for the new E class fleet, replacing East Preston depot to supply trams for route 11 and 86.

Track leads into the east end of the redeveloped Preston Workshops

Saturday 30 January 2016 8:42 AM
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Tracks link the east and west sheds of the redeveloped Preston Workshops

Saturday 30 January 2016 8:40 AM
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Western entrance to the redeveloped Preston Workshops

Saturday 30 January 2016 8:37 AM
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Tram loading ramp on Miller Street, outside Preston Workshops

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:25 PM
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Tram loading ramp on Miller Street, outside Preston Workshops

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:24 PM
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Tracks still in place on St Georges Road, leading into the former Thornbury Depot

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:21 PM
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Tracks still in place on St Georges Road, leading into the former Thornbury Depot

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:20 PM
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Handful of B2 class trams stabled in the open air roads at the south end of Preston Workshops

Apparently a number of B2 class trams have now been allocated to Preston Workshops, with tram drivers being ferried in from elsewhere

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:16 PM
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Track lead into the west end of Preston Workshops

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:15 PM
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Yet to be commissioned 'Elektroline' signals controlling access to the refurbished sheds

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:15 PM
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Track lead into the west end of Preston Workshops

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:15 PM
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Looking east down Miller Street towards the 'Hump'

Saturday 14 November 2015 4:10 PM
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W2.650 stored in the open at Preston Workshops

Saturday 9 August 2014 9:09 AM
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Former 'Plate Shop' rebuilt as a six road tram shed

Saturday 9 August 2014 9:02 AM
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Test track heads west towards the rest of the internal network

Saturday 12 April 2014 10:41 AM
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Former 'Plate Shop' at the east end undergoing refurbishment for the E-class trams

Saturday 12 April 2014 10:41 AM
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Former 'Plate Shop' at the east end undergoing refurbishment for the E-class trams

Saturday 12 April 2014 10:41 AM
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Northern side of the Miller Street tramway bridge

Note the slope of the abutments - it has been expanded twice: once for the second track, and again for the footpath

Saturday 12 April 2014 10:41 AM
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Passing beneath the Miller Street tramway bridge

Saturday 12 April 2014 10:41 AM
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Southern end of the Preston Workshops test track

Saturday 12 April 2014 10:40 AM
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Colonial Tramcar Restaurant SW6.937 'City Of Melbourne' leads a row of stored W class at Preston Workshops

Saturday 17 November 2012 12:36 PM
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A decrepit looking W7.1015 sits outside road 15

Saturday 17 November 2012 12:34 PM
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SW6.870 sitting outside road 13

Saturday 17 November 2012 12:33 PM
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B2.2104 parked at Preston Workshops

Saturday 17 November 2012 12:32 PM
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