Location Coldblo Road, Armadale Operator Yarra Trams Opened 30 May 1910 | Owner(s) VicTrack Rolling stock D-class Melbourne tram | |
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Roads 17 (14 in sheds, 3 outside) Routes served 5, 6, 8 (shared with Brunswick), 16, 72 | ||
Malvern tram depot is located on Coldblo Road, Armadale, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operated by Yarra Trams, it is one of eight tram depots on the Melbourne tram network.
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History
Malvern tram depot was opened on 30 May 1910 by the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust (PMTT). It was included in the sale of the PMTT to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board on 1 March 1920. In 1930 a second tramshed was built on the opposite side of Coldblo Road.
When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Essendon depot passed to M>Tram. It passed to Yarra Trams when it took control of the entire tram network in April 2004. In January 2005 Coldblo Road that ran between the two sheds with one track was closed to vehicle traffic and two additional tracks laid.
Heritage buildings
The buildings at the depot are listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Layout
The main yard has 17 roads, 14 of these inside two sheds and three uncovered roads taking up space in Coldblo Road. A multi-directional single exit/entry track exists.
Rolling stock
As at November 2016, the depot had an allocation of 82 trams: 38 D1-class and 44 Z3-class.
Routes
The following routes are operated from Malvern depot: