Melbourne tram route 109

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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
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Melbourne tram route 109 is a tram route on the Melbourne tramway network serving the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Operated by Yarra Trams, the route is coloured orange and extends from Box Hill to Port Melbourne over 19.3 kilometre of double track via Whitehorse Road, Victoria Street and Collins Street. It is serviced out of Kew depot utilising A and C class trams.

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 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.

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

v t e 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	Bus interchange Box Hill
	Mainline rail interchange Box Hill station ●くろまる ●くろまる
57		Nelson Road
56		Elgar Road
Mont Albert Whitehorse Road	55		Hood Street
54		Inglisby Road
Surrey Hills Whitehorse Road	53		Union Road	Bus interchange 284, 612
51		Narrak Road
50		Wharton Street
Balwyn Whitehorse Road	49		Northcote Avenue
48		Balwyn Shopping Centre
47		Balwyn Road	Bus interchange 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	Tram interchange 72;Bus interchange 548
	Burke Road Tram 72	Melbourne University Right arrow
Kew Cotham Road	41		Kew Traffic School
40		St George's Hospital	Bus interchange 548
39		Thomas Street
38		Marshall Avenue
37		Belmont Avenue
36		Glenferrie Road	Tram interchange 16
	Glenferrie Road Tram 16	Melbourne University Right arrow
35		Charles Street	Bus interchange 609
34		High Street
	High Street Tram 48	Left arrow Balwyn North
Kew High Street	33		Cotham Road	Tram interchange 48
32		Kew Junction	Bus interchange 200, 207, 609
31		Stevenson Street
	Church Street Tram 48	Victoria Harbour Right arrow
Hawthorn Barkers Road	29		High Street	Tram interchange 48
	Kew tram depot
27		Findon Crescent
Richmond Victoria Street	25		River Boulevard
	Victoria Gardens Siding
24		Victoria Gardens	Tram interchange 12
23		Leslie Street
22		McKay Street
21		Church Street	Tram interchange 78
	Church Street Tram 78	Balaclava Right arrow
20		Lennox Street
19		North Richmond station
	Mainline rail interchange North Richmond station ●くろまる ●くろまる
East Melbourne Victoria Parade	18		Hoddle Street	Bus interchange Hoddle Street buses
16		Wellington Street
15		Smith Street
13		Lansdowne Street
	St Vincent's Plaza Siding
	Brunswick Street Tram 11	Left arrow West Preston
12		St Vincent's Plaza
	Victoria Parade Tram 30	Left arrow La Trobe Street
Gisborne Street	11		Albert Street
Macarthur Street	10		Parliament station
	Mainline rail interchange Parliament Station ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる
	Spring Street Tram 48, City Circle	Wellington Parade Right arrow  Left arrow Nicholson Street
Melbourne CBD Collins Street	8		Spring Street	Tram interchange 48, City Circle
7		101 Collins Street	Bus interchange 605
	Swanston Street Tram 1, 3, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72	St Kilda Road Right arrow  Left arrow Melbourne University
6		Town Hall	Tram interchange 1, 3, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72
	Elizabeth Street Tram 19, 57, 59	Flinders Street station Right arrow  Left arrow North Melbourne
5		Elizabeth Street	Tram interchange 19, 57, 59
3		William Street	Tram interchange 58; Bus interchange Queen Street buses
	William Street Tram 58	Toorak Right arrow  Left arrow West Coburg
1		Southern Cross station	Tram interchange 11, 48, 96
	Mainline rail interchange Southern Cross station ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる ●くろまる
	Spencer Street Tram 96	Left arrow Bourke Street
	Collins Street Tram 11, 48	Left arrow Docklands
	Flinders Street Tram 70, 75, City Circle	Wattle Park/Vermont South Right arrow  Left arrow Docklands
	Flinders Street Viaduct
Spencer Street	124		Batman Park
Southbank Clarendon Street	124A		Casino/MCEC	Tram interchange 12
	Clarendon Street Tram 12	St Kilda (Fitzroy Street) Right arrow
Normanby Road	125		Clarendon Street Junction	Tram interchange 96
	St Kilda Light Rail Tram 96	St Kilda Beach Right arrow
South Melbourne Normanby Road	125A		Southbank tram depot
	Southbank tram depot
126		Montague Street
Port Melbourne Station Street	127		North Port
128		Graham Street
129		Beacon Cove	Bus interchange 236, PPC
Suburb	No.		Stop Name (Road Name)	Connections

Note: Green denotes free tram zone

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]

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