Re: Re: The last Wellington track relic
Donald Galt
Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:17 PM
On 10 Oct 2002 at 21:05, Evan Collett wrote:
Just a darn minute here! Graeme's picture notwithstanding, by 1960 at least,
northbound bus traffic ran in Cambridge Terrace. This included not only route 2
trolleys (note the absence of northbound TB overhead in the picture) but also
route 3 diesels. You can see that routing committed to paper on the sketch map
I posted a couple of days ago (CityRoute1.jpg). The wrong way trams were for me
just another of Wellington's interesting peculiarities.
I don't know whether this was a recent development related to the stringing of
TB wire, nor whether some sort of motor traffic was permitted northbound in
Kent Terrace, but I rather doubt that it was used by northbound through
traffic.
Is it possible the picture dates from before my time, or that it depicts an
unusual situation?
Don
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On having looked again at the photo. I have to admit you were right.
The cars did head north along Kent Tce. It must be my age because for
the life of me I do not remember the cars heading that way. But of
course I was a bit muddled by the traffic in Wellington when I first
came here.
Just a darn minute here! Graeme's picture notwithstanding, by 1960 at least,
northbound bus traffic ran in Cambridge Terrace. This included not only route 2
trolleys (note the absence of northbound TB overhead in the picture) but also
route 3 diesels. You can see that routing committed to paper on the sketch map
I posted a couple of days ago (CityRoute1.jpg). The wrong way trams were for me
just another of Wellington's interesting peculiarities.
I don't know whether this was a recent development related to the stringing of
TB wire, nor whether some sort of motor traffic was permitted northbound in
Kent Terrace, but I rather doubt that it was used by northbound through
traffic.
Is it possible the picture dates from before my time, or that it depicts an
unusual situation?
Don
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