Christchurch Tram
Restored heritage trams looping the central city, with live driver commentary and eighteen stops.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Christchurch Tram starts on an October afternoon in nineteen fifty-two, with the city's mayor at the controls of a tram leaving Cathedral Square and a pipe band playing on the trailer behind him. It follows the old beach line to New Brighton, the seaside crowds it carried, and the tracks that once ran along Worcester Street. Best heard at the Worcester Street stop, as a heritage car rocks toward you.
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