Trams in Seddon
Gamon, Charles and Victoria Street
In 1916 the Footscray Tramways Trust was formed. Over about four decades they built and ran a small network of tram services radiating out of Footscray.
One of those routes ran down Irving, Nicholson, Buckley, Victoria, Charles and Gamon Streets, through Seddon, then down Somerville Road to the corner of Williamstown Road.
To this day, the number 223 bus runs down exactly the same streets, 7 days a week, 18 hours a day. Other streets both nearby and in other suburbs, with the same or higher density of housing and shops, get inferior bus services, or none at all (particularly on Sundays), just because they didn’t have a tram service early last century.