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Thread ID: 149332 2020-10-28 23:45:00 Wellington Trams - a question. Roscoe (6288) PC World Chat
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1472593 2020-10-28 23:45:00 I have been reading a magazine with an article on Wellington Trams and seeing photographs I am reminded of the three coloured lights above the destination but I do not know what they were for. Is there anyone from Wellington about that time (1940s - 1950s) that know what those lights were for?:help:

Your help is appreciated. :thanks
Roscoe (6288)
1472594 2020-10-28 23:58:00 I have been reading a magazine with an article on Wellington Trams and seeing photographs I am reminded of the three coloured lights above the destination but I do not know what they were for. Is there anyone from Wellington about that time (1940s - 1950s) that know what those lights were for?:help:

Your help is appreciated. :thanksThe lights indicated the destination which was helpful to see when your particular tram was on its way. I don't recall them now, but for example, three plain lights for Island Bay etc.
Pato (2463)
1472595 2020-10-29 00:06:00 Thanks very much for that, Pato. I lived in Hataitai in the 1950s and rode the trams quite often but I never knew what the lights were for. I was only a youngster at the time so I was rarely out at night so I don't remember those lights being lit. :thanks Roscoe (6288)
1472596 2020-10-29 04:42:00 Really? So you had to learn what all the light combos meant then?
Only tram I have been on is the Motat to Zoo one...been on that heaps...great fun.
piroska (17583)
1472597 2020-10-29 06:08:00 Are they still running the old Wellington trams at Queen Elizabeth Park in Paekakariki? feersumendjinn (64)
1472598 2020-10-29 06:53:00 Are they still running the old Wellington trams at Queen Elizabeth Park in Paekakariki?

As far as I am aware, yes they are. They have the two types of Wellington trams, the faducia and the open saloon (called the toaster :lol:).
Roscoe (6288)
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