I believe Newcastle wanted to take the Rs/R1s from Sydney when Sydney
finished with them. That would have been some tram system if it happened.

Tony P

On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 at 13:23:05 UTC+10 Tony Galloway wrote:

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> On 11 Sep 2023, at 22:11, TP histor...@...> wrote:

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> Brisbane is the only city-run operation in Australia.

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> Brisbane is the only capital with a single city-wide council.

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> Newcastle also has a city-wide council and wanted to take over the state

> government run trams and buses, and retain and modernise the trams, after

> WW2, but the state government knocked them back.

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> Earlier the council lobbied hard for the Newcastle tramway to be

> electrified, partly achieved in 1923. Otherwise it would have most likely

> suffered the same fate as the Maitland and Broken Hill tramways, which

> closed in 1926 along with Arncliffe-Bexley and the remnant government line

> at Parramatta.

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> Tony

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