Re: Australia/New Zealand cable trams

The last Syndey cable tram ran in 1904 on the King Street Cable Line.
An excellent history of this line is contained in the Watsons Bay
Line by David Keenan, published in about 1989/1990. A similar history
of the North Shore cable line is given by the same author in the
North Sydney Lines, published some time earlier.

The best history of the Melborne system, reputedly the largest system
under a simgle owner in the world is Mind the Curve by John Keating
1971, republished in the early 1990's.

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Joe Thompson" <cable_car_guy@h...> wrote:

I'm always interested in gathering information about Halldie-type

cable

railways.

Sydney had them until 1900. They had two isolated lines.

Melbourne had cable trams until 1940. Melbourne had one of the

largest

systems in the world, and, they like to say, the best designed. I

have an

article about them on my web site:
http://www.geocities.com/cable_car_guy/cablecar.html

Dunedin, NZ had them from 1881 until 1957. Dunedin was the first

and last

city outside of San Francisco to have them. The Roslyn Tramway was

the

first to use a pull curve. I've had a bad time finding information

about

these lines.

Wellington, NZ still has a funicular that they call a cable car.

Their

museum has a nice web site:
http://www.cablecarmuseum.co.nz

Does anyone out there have any first hand memories of the cable

trams in

Melbourne or Dunedin? How about second hand memories from

parents,

grandparents, or friends? I'd be happy to include them on my site.

Regards,
Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/cable_car_guy/cablecar.html
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats
http://home.mindspring.com/~joethompson1/ferry.html
Park Trains (new page)
http://www.geocities.com/cable_car_guy/html/ptrain.html



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