> On 18 Aug 2017, at 2:17 pm, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Sydney seems to have had a much more integrated approach from the outset

> (of course), but the integration of Melbourne and Victorian tram and

> heavy rail transit systems is relatively recent - dating from the

> establishment of the Public Transport Corporation replacing the old

> competitive tramway / railway bodies.


Sydney went the other way. When the railways lost control of the tramways to Sydney and Newcastle tramway trusts in 1930, moving to to a pro-road, pro-bus, anti-tram administration 1932 that saw tramways as the problem the die was cast. The timeline for tramway closure laid down in the mid to late 30s was more or less followed, with the 1961 demise more or less as predicted when the initial closure proposals were floated in the 30s.

Tony G