Re: Digest Number 407 message 11
John Fitzsimons
Friday, October 4, 2002 6:37 AM
Message for Donald Galt and anyone else interested re
Wellington book.
Book title is:
Around Wellington by tram in the 20th century. Author
Graham Stewart
first published l999 Grantham House Publishing
PO Box l9-ll4 Courtenay Place, Wellington NZ
ISBN 1 86934 072 8 The map does not show junctions or
crossovers but just about everything else. It is on
Page 60.
retail about $A32.
Also The Kelburn Cable Car Wellington New Zealand by
same author for l902-2002 celebrating l00 years of
service.
First published 2001 same publisher address now
6/9Wilkinson St. Oriental Bay NZ
ISBN 1 86934 085 X
retails about $A15. Railfan Shop 40 Market St.
Melbourne has copies of both and offers same day mail
service on receipt of credit card details.
Hope this of use. The books are both excellent as
befits Graham Stewart's authorship.
John Fitzsimons.
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Wellington book.
Book title is:
Around Wellington by tram in the 20th century. Author
Graham Stewart
first published l999 Grantham House Publishing
PO Box l9-ll4 Courtenay Place, Wellington NZ
ISBN 1 86934 072 8 The map does not show junctions or
crossovers but just about everything else. It is on
Page 60.
retail about $A32.
Also The Kelburn Cable Car Wellington New Zealand by
same author for l902-2002 celebrating l00 years of
service.
First published 2001 same publisher address now
6/9Wilkinson St. Oriental Bay NZ
ISBN 1 86934 085 X
retails about $A15. Railfan Shop 40 Market St.
Melbourne has copies of both and offers same day mail
service on receipt of credit card details.
Hope this of use. The books are both excellent as
befits Graham Stewart's authorship.
John Fitzsimons.
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There are 16 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. RE: Views of Wellington - 4
From: "Brent Efford"
<[email protected]>
2. Messages from daily Digests
From: "Graeme Bennett"
<[email protected]>
3. Maximun traction trucks
From: "Graeme Bennett"
<[email protected]>
4. Re: Maximun traction trucks
From: "malrowe" <[email protected]>
5. Another cold morning on the Quay
From: "graeme bennett"
<[email protected]>
6. Tram News & Other Sightings 1.10
From: "Andy B" <[email protected]>
7. Re: Re: Wn Aotea Quay and Northland TB's
From: "Donald Galt" <[email protected]>
8. Fibreglass poles (was: Views of Wellington
- 4)
From: "Donald Galt" <[email protected]>
9. NZ: National Geographic pictures - 1 of 2
From: "Donald Galt" <[email protected]>
10. Re: Re: Views of Wellington - 3
From: "Donald Galt" <[email protected]>
11. Re: Graham Stewart's opus on Wellington
From: "Donald Galt" <[email protected]>
12. Re: Another cold morning on the Quay
From: "Donald Galt" <[email protected]>
13. Melbourne transport management shakeup?
From: "Paul Nicholson" <[email protected]>
14. RE: Fibreglass poles (was: Views of
Wellington - 4)
From: "Brent Efford"
<[email protected]>
15. Re:Fibreglass poles and Northland Trolley
buses
From: "Evan Collett"
<[email protected]>
16. Re: My Last post
From: "Evan Collett"
<[email protected]>
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:39:48 +1200
From: "Brent Efford"
<[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Views of Wellington - 4
The Workshops and sheds are now owned by Stagecoach,
as their maintenance
and main storage facility for both trolley and
diesel buses and are largely
still as in Don's photo. I was there at lunchtime
today (how's that for a
segue back to 'topic'?!) on one of my regular visits
to catch up with friend
and trolleybus engineer Graeme Butler and update
myself re progress on the
new trolleybus project.
The prototype body at Designline is going
agonisingly slowly, but in the
meantime the new electrical equipment is being
installed in existing
trolleybus 264 as a test bed. Here is Graeme with
the Brazillian-made
inverter, which is currently being wired up. Graeme
is a real enthusiast and
a very keen design engineer - he designed some
composite
aluminium/fibre-glass trolley poles 20 years ago,
was snubbed by the
obstructive City Council management of the day ...
but the poles are now
being tested in service and are proving a fantastic
success - very difficult
to dewire. The whole fleet will probably be fitted
with them. Likewise, he
has improvements to the Chinese-built trolley bases,
pneumatic retrievers,
overhead fittings and many other items also in the
pipeline.
The workshops, incidentally, are amazingly original,
with a lot of the old
4' gauge tram track in position and the floor-level
traverser tracks
likewise. The traverser itself has gone - I would
love to see a photo of it.
Brent Efford
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From: Donald Galt [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2002 7:50 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Views of Wellington - 4
The fourth in a series of scans from the picture
booklet "Views of
Wellington,
the Capital City of New Zealand" published by
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd,
probably
in the late 1930s or 1940s
"Evans Bay and Point Halswell"
The view is northeast from the Town Belt above
Melrose, looking over
Kilbirnie
to Miramar and Port Nicholson beyond, with the
snow-capped Tararuas in the
distance.
Today's shoreline is far north of the one we see
here, which is just north
of
what is now Rongotai Road. The location of the power
plant at Kemp Point is
now
well inland.
"What's this doing in a tram list?" I hear you
muttering. Well, look at the
large building just right of centre. That's the
Kilbirnie Depot and
Workshops,
largest of all WCCT installations.
Route 2 via the Hataitai Tunnel and route 3 coming
down Crawford Road from
Newtown converged behind the hill at far left and
continued to the northwest
corner of the shops. There the line to Lyall Bay
turned south along Onepu
Road,
visible in front of the buildings. Services to
Miramar and Seatoun went east
in
Coutts Street on the north side of the installation,
continuing past
Rongotai
College (whose grounds can be seen on the right
margin) and along Broadway.
Expansion of the airport at Rongotai severed the
Coutts Street - Broadway
route
and killed the Miramar and Seatoun trams.
Present-day trolleybuses take a
route
approximately following the shoreline in this
picture.
A couple of other pictures from this book might be
of interest to some, but
this is the last one that could possibly qualify as
on-topic.
Don Galt
Seattle USA
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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:08:12 -0000
From: "Graeme Bennett" <[email protected]>
Subject: Messages from daily Digests
It is really good to hear from Jeff Bounds and John
Fitzimmons,
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