The restored tram is a couple of hundred metres south of the tram waiting
shed (which incidentally is now a B Line bus stop). It's among the trees at
the other end of the carpark on the right:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-33.7135194,151.297263,3a,75y,208.32h,91.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHmMqPqb1KDx-fPe_aElpnA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Looking the other way back north from the location of the tram:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-33.714893,151.2973055,3a,75y,327.89h,78.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLQrMLL6qtffRj-NXDT98-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
We could do with the Manly system back in place now, together with the
North Sydney system that could be reinstated, since they decided to put the
extra heavy rail under the harbour. A tram bridge across Middle Harbour
would complete what should have originally been completed.
Here are a couple of the present B Line limited-stop buses at Narrabeen
tram waiting shed (TfNSW photo):
https://ehq-production-australia.imgix.net/aa1e05ec5fc2c47836a0a7ea31f767ff2f6bf4fe/projects/images/000/016/284/original/March_image.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1080
These buses have plenty of seats but are slow and cramped inside with very
long dwell times at stops, as one would expect. I find the centre of
gravity lurch when they go into bends too fast sickening - you even feel it
on the lower deck. It reminds one of the delights that Manly's former tram
passengers confronted when riding in the "modern motor buses" that replaced
the trams. The bus in the second incident below ironically landed upside
down in the former tram terminus at The Spit, ending the lives of several
people aboard:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/30516642
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48594262
Back in the day when Manly residents and tourists were transported safely
by tram - the terminus loop at The Spit into which the bus in the 1949
accident later fell from the road high above (Manly Library):
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GNYAR9Hj4uc/TU9DOH1StII/AAAAAAAAALg/MN4_jvkH_Rw/s1600/First%2BSpit%2Bto%2BManly%2Btram%2B1911.JPG
Tony P
On Tuesday, 12 June 2018 11:41:15 UTC+10, Richard Youl wrote:
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> My sister lives in the Northern Beaches and kindly agreed to stop and take
> some photos for myself and TDU. Her Camera Club expertise is obvious.
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> These and subsequent photos will show this restoration to be very nicely
> done. My only quibbles which may well be rectified in the future are that
> any tram which lacks lifeguards to me looks ‘naked’ and in the case of
> Sydney, worse with the lack of the couplers.
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> I’m not certain where it is in relation the the former tram waiting shed
> but apparently you ‘Can’t miss it’ in the park on the left side of the road
> heading north. Incidentally once again the old tram shed is in service
> having for some years been ignored with the bus stop being a number of
> metres away. Photos of that later.
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> If saving or forwarding these photos, kindly attribute them to Margot Best.
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