RE: Newtown Tram Depot Sydney WAS: Same tram destinations used in different cities

And, of course, we had a Newtown Tram Depot in Wellington. It was demolished
after the last NZ tram route (Newtown Park Zoo) closed in 1964 and is now
the site of a Council housing complex and a fire station.

Brent Efford



-----Original Message-----
From: jamescng [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2002 4:11 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Newtown Tram Depot Sydney WAS: Same tram
destinations used in different cities


My office is in Newtown on Erskineville Road, everyday i walk pass the
former entrance to the Newtown tramway depot, to my amazement, the track and
some points at the entry road to the depot are still in situ. To those who
leave in sydney would know, road surface of King street on Newtown bridge is
quite poor, i wonder if the old rather extensive tramway junction at Enmore
Road, King street and the connecting tracks into the depot are still there?

Cheers
James :-)

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Roy Winslow" <rwinslow@b...> wrote:

The terminus that is still largely in situ is actually the truncated
terminus established in 1966 to allow room for the express bus service to
terminate. The original terminus was at Mayfield Road and was provided

with

an equalateral single track terminus. The 'new' terminus track was the

down

line, with the up line cut to swing into the down track. Therefore when

you

look at the trackwork still remaining in the concrete underneath parked
cars, you will see a small length of isolated up track. I have a number of
photos of the second terminus, but does anyone have photos showing the
original one?

I last saw the site in 1990, but presume little has changed as the traffic
islands and carparking bumpers had already been installed by this time. I
will try to pull out some photos of the track from 1990 and post on this
site ASAP...

Roy
-----Original Message-----
From: David Brown [mailto:z_class@y...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:33 AM
To: TramsDownUnder@y...
Subject: RE: [TramsDownUnder] Same tram destinations used in different
cities


--- Roy Winslow <rwinslow@b...> wrote:
> There was a 'Belmont' line in both Brisbane and
> Geelong, although the
> Brisbane variety actually terminated in the suburb
> of Carina....


The route number of the Belmont service was 06, and
the terminus and about two kilometers of reservation
in Old Cleveland Rd still exist, though the BCC has
placed traffic islands across the tracks at certain
intersections. The cityxpress bus stop in Old
Cleveland Rd opposite the tram terminus is named
Carina. There is a branch of the BCC library in
Mayfield St, a couple of hundred metres down the hill
from the shops, which has an excellent photo of a FM
car at the terminus on display.

Dave in Brisbane.

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