Melbourne tram route 31 was operated by
Yarra Trams
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on the
Melbourne tram network
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from
Hoddle Street
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to
Victoria Harbour
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. The route was designed as a supplementary service along
Collins Street, with services running between peak hours with reduced services on weekends.
History
The first version of route 31 ran from
St Vincent's Plaza to the end of
Collins Street at
Spencer Street
Spencer Street is a major street and thoroughfare in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria. The street was gazetted in 1837 as the westernmost boundary of the Hoddle Grid.
Spencer Street is named for John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spenc ...
. On 18 November 2002, the route, along with peak-hour routes of
11 and
42, was extended via a new extension of Collins Street past
Spencer Street station and terminated at Collins Street West End. From 28 June 2004 until 21 November 2005, the line was truncated back to Spencer Street while Spencer Street station (now Southern Cross station) was redeveloped.
With the rerouting of
route 48 onto Collins Street in September 2009, route 31 ceased to run.
On 25 October 2010 an amended route 31 was reinstated, running from
Hoddle Street
Hoddle Highway is an urban highway in Melbourne linking CityLink and the Eastern Freeway, itself a sub-section of Hoddle Main Road. Both these names are not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the n ...
,
Collingwood to St Vincent's Plaza via Victoria Parade, then via Collins Street and continuing to
Victoria Harbour
Victoria Harbour is a natural landform harbour in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north. The harbour's deep, sheltered waters and strategic location on South China Sea were instrumental in ...
(Merchant Street). The service ran on weekdays between the peak hours.
On 26 January 2014, the route was extended westwards by one more stop to terminate at the intersection of Collins Street and
Bourke Street
Bourke Street is one of the main streets in the Melbourne central business district and a core feature of the Hoddle Grid. It was traditionally the entertainment hub of inner-city Melbourne, and is now also a popular tourist destination and ...
, which became the new Victoria Harbour terminus.
The route was discontinued on 25 July 2014 as part of a wider timetable change to the Yarra Trams network, replaced by a full-time routes
11,
12,
48 and
109 along Victoria Parade and Collins Street.
Capacity boost for tram passengers
Yarra Trams 9 July 2014
Route map
References
External links
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