Re: Re: Going, going ....
  Tony Galloway

Yeah, corner of Crystal St and Parramatta Rd Petersham - it was just down the street from my old tech college. It was a remnant of the Darling St wharf-Canterbury station cross country route, and that bit was the southbound track towards Canterbury. The northbound track split away to the left at Fort St, then made two right turns into Railway St and Parramatta Rd to join the line to Rozelle and Balmain in Norton St Leichhardt.

It was covered when Crystal St was repaved in the early 80s, but Fort St is still mostly concrete paved and the bitumen strip over the northbound track makes its location obvious.

Tony G

> On 8 Sep 2017, at 7:03 pm, Richard Youltressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> I don't know the names of the streets, but there was concreted track leaving Parramatta Rd in the area of Petersham and continuing all the way to Dulwich Hill which was still totally exposed into the 1980s at least which I saw.

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> On 8 Sep 2017, at 6:56 pm, Tony Gallowayarg@... mailto:arg@aapt..net.au [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@... mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>> A lot of Sydney track was left off centre in main roads when they were widened, and relocation work continued into the 50s. Also, a lot of track was relaid along the route of the royal tour in the early 50s to “tidy things up”, and in a few places track was relaid late in the piece because existing track was so worn out it had become a derailment hazard. There is concreted track buried in New Canterbury Rd, Petersham and Dulwich Hill, that saw about four years use before being abandoned in 1957.

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>> Here’s a pic of William St Darlinghurst having the tracks centred in the 30s :

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>> https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiJ94XYmZXWAhXFmJQKHb44Ab4QjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F326933254169435032%2F&psig=AFQjCNFMJET5ysgiAAJrLZto62AJ1XaZdg&ust=1504945950311259

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>> In the foreground are the Potts Point trolleybus wires, and the Bondi via Bellevue Hill line rails swinging away to the right into Yurong St.

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>> Tony G

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>>> On 8 Sep 2017, at 6:22 pm,mcloughlin.dj@... mailto:mcloughlin.dj@gmail.com [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@... mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>>> Mal Rowe wrote:

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>>> > Here's today's pic showing most of the overhead already gone.

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>>> The trackwork looks recent!

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>>> But then most of the trolley bus overhead in Wellington was renewed in the last five years, a good reason to rip it down!

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>>> I bet the MMTB paid for Preston Depot. And that its sale won't be credit against the tram infrastructure.

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>>> Oh and thanks for the details of the Almada tram Mal

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>>> david mcl, NZ

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