Re: HK and Sydney
Bill Bolton
Monday, August 27, 2001 10:20 AM
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:11:02 +1000, Matt wrote:
Apart from Todman Avenue, there's normally no track showing in the
public roadway. Occasionally a rail end peeps through the tar
somewhere but it is usually reburied or cut off quickly. There's
still quite a bit of mass concrete track under the tar in various
places, such as Glebe Point Road and Canterbury Road, but successive
repavings means that it is now well buried.
Redevelopment has done in most of the special purpose Tramway
buildings with just a few of the Depots left. Tempe depot now houses
the HCVA bus museum.
40 years on from the closure of the 2nd generation system there's
little left which is obviously identifiable as a tramway relic, mostly
just shaved corners at major intersections where a tram route turned
and that sort of thing.
If you know where to look there are various non-obvious remanents,
such as various private right of ways which have only been partially
built over etc, but the pickings get thinner and thinner as time goes
by.
Cheers,
Bill
Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia
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In other things, does anyone have any info as to what remains in Sydney of
their original system (other than the fine collection at Loftus, of course)?
I've seen the bus area around Randwick racecourse, the old ROW to La Perouse
and a few shelters here and there, as well as some of the depots (Newtown
being the most interesting, it looks as if it was closed up and abandoned
years ago). Are there any lengths of track visible in streets anywhere?
Apart from Todman Avenue, there's normally no track showing in the
public roadway. Occasionally a rail end peeps through the tar
somewhere but it is usually reburied or cut off quickly. There's
still quite a bit of mass concrete track under the tar in various
places, such as Glebe Point Road and Canterbury Road, but successive
repavings means that it is now well buried.
Redevelopment has done in most of the special purpose Tramway
buildings with just a few of the Depots left. Tempe depot now houses
the HCVA bus museum.
40 years on from the closure of the 2nd generation system there's
little left which is obviously identifiable as a tramway relic, mostly
just shaved corners at major intersections where a tram route turned
and that sort of thing.
If you know where to look there are various non-obvious remanents,
such as various private right of ways which have only been partially
built over etc, but the pickings get thinner and thinner as time goes
by.
Cheers,
Bill
Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia
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