Re: Anniversaries, little systems and big systems

Roy,re large systems,I would have thought that Chicago Surface Lines
at its peak would be the winner,it was a huge system.Paul,I think
pros in Grey St.is fairly recent,in earlier days Fitzroy St.was
favoured long before it was the trendy cafe strip that it is now,I
recommend"A Fine and Private Place"by Brian Matthews largely set in
an earlier and racier St.Kilda,Tony,yes I have seen that marvellous
early footage from Sydney,I havn't got a lot of regrets but missing
Sydneys trams is certainly one of them.Any book of Max Dupains
photographs,e.g"Max Dupains Sydney"published 1999 has some great
shots in which trams feature,even if there is no tram in the shot it
is obvious that Sydney is Tram City.Regards to all TDUs,Peter
Bruce. --- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Roy Winslow" <rwinslow@b...>
wrote:

Leonora and its sister town Gwalia was served by one single truck

electric

tramcar from 1908 until the powerhouse burnt down in 1915. The

service was

then provided by a converted Dodge truck until 1922. The tramcar

remained in

Leonora unloved until the 1970's, when the body was preserved. The

truck was

scrapped in the 1960's if memory serves. The body was well

preserved as it

hardly ever rains out that way...

I am led to believe that the Sydney system at its maximum was the

third

largest unified system in the world, after London and
St.Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad (now St.Petersburg, again).

Talking about anniversaries and WA trams - this year (2002) is a

big year:

100th Anniversary of the opening of the Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways

50th Anniversary of the closing of same; and

50th Anniversary of the closing of the Fremantle Municipal Tramways.

I will need to get out my dates book to confirm the day and months.

Roy
-----Original Message-----
From: malrowe [mailto:malrowe@r...]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:04 AM
To: TramsDownUnder@y...
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: anniversaries.


--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "adyoung63141" <dayoung007@h...>

wrote:

> And the smallest tram system in the British Empire? Surely

Leonora

(is
> that the correct spelling) in Wstn. Australia with 1 car--which

I

> understand not only has survived since the operation ceased

circa

> 1922, but is now being preserved. Can anyone confirm? And what

is

to
> be used for its single-truck, motor and controls and where will

it

> run/be displayed?
>

On nit - picking - Leonora actually had three cars over time -

steam,

electric then internal combustion!

I suspect that the preservation is body only - I was in the West

last

year, but a 1000km detour for a pic of a body only seemed a little
too far!

There is a description of the attractions of Leonora at
http://www.leonora.wa.gov.au/gwalia.html
A picture of steam days is at
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~vaux/


Mal from Oz


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