A long way back, I travelled by tram on the Botany line, and wanted to go to Matraville via Bunnerong, which maps indicated connected with the Botany line. I was told at the terminus that the link no longer existed, and hadn't for many years. I was also told that the end of the Botany line had recently been relaid in mass concrete, which the driver and conductor assured me meant that the line would soon be closed.IIRC, they also said that there was a stack of new rail somewhere near, ready for the next relay!
But that was many years ago and memories are sometimes a bit faulty.
Dudley Horscroft
On 1/04/2021 2:07 pm, Hal Cain wrote:
> Hah. Melbourne tram tracks, recently relaid...
>
> Well, I will be interested to hear about buses in High St Northcote, with doors on both sides, so they can use the centre platforms. Or perhaps they will just switch sides, from left to right, so their doors open on the centre platforms; then switch back, because lefthand traffic... with traffic lights for buses, to control the conflicting moves, of course.
>
> In the late 1950s, when I spent a lot of afterschool time around Kew Depot, when the High Street South track and the Barkers Rd junction had been relaid in mass concrete, a Kew driver (who had been on the job long enough to have been working on the Richmond cable trams) suggested to me that in 10 or 12 years' time they would be driving buses on the concrete.
>
> Hal Cain
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:51 AM limestone@... mailto:limestone@telstra.com> wrote:
>
> The Light Rail will also be extended to North Shore Northern
> Beaches via Manly to enable elimination of Manly Ferry
> Meanwhile in Melbourne the newly relaid tram tracks and stops will
> enable battery buses to replace trams so the buses will not
> interfere with the e-bike lanes.
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