On 26/08/2021 12:36, Roger Greenwood wrote:
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> Mal ‘wondered about the exact site of the Pyrotechnics Factory’.

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> It’s location is shown on the route map forming part of my Footscray DVD. I used a fairly early street map for this purpose and the area defined for the new depot (corner of Williamson & Hampstead Rd) was shown as being full of suburban streets. The pyrotechnics factory fronted Hampstead Rd opposite Wattle Rd.

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Thanks Roger - I should have checked that.

The Pyrotechnics Factory and the Ordnance Factory were in practice the same destination - the end of the short branch that ran south from Raleigh Rd  just east of Wests Rd to Williamson Rd during the war.

I attach my pic of 676 and 180 playing around on the old terminus crossover during a TMSV tour in 1967.

Mal Rowe - who would like to see 180 make a return to the old site for the depot opening!