Dunedin in cable tram days - map
Donald Galt
Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:13 AM
In messages 4470 & 4471 I posted a couple of pictures looking down Stuart
Street in Dunedin from the Highgate corner: one taken during the era of the
cable tramline that closed in 1947; the other, my own picture dating from 1962.
The attached scan is from a government map at the scale of 1:63360 (one inch to
a mile.) The map was drawn in 1942 and revised in 1947, just before closure of
the line that figured in the discussion.
Don't know about your screen, but on mine the 1000-yard gridlines (remember,
this map was drawn to the old military grid) are spaced just over 1.53 inches
apart. So I make the onscreen scale to be 1:23600 more or less.
It was not finely-enough drawn to show the ups and downs of the cable lines
(contour interval is 100 ft = 30 m) but at least you can see how the Stuart
Street and Roslyn lines crossed the Town Belt on reserved track.
All of Dunedin's cable lines are shown, namely, from south to north:
- The Mornington line running southwest up High Street (closed 2 March 1957)
connecting at the outer end with
- The Maryhill line running southerly at a 90 degree angle. Its dizzying
gradients (maximum 1 in 3.5) likewise can't be made out on the map. (closed 24
Feb 1956)
- The Roslyn line, climbing up Rattray Street from the Exchange (corner of
High and Princes Streets), then descending to a western terminus in the
Kaikorai Valley. (closed 26 Oct 1951)
- The Stuart Street line (formerly Dunedin and Kaikorai Tram Co Ltd) taking a
bending route northwestward from the upper Octagon and likewise descending from
the summit to an outer terminus in the Kaikorai Valley. (closed 31 July 1947)
The yellow dot marks the Highgate Street crossing from which both photos were
shot, looking southeast down Stuart Street towards the city.
The transformation of this route into the motor highway shown in the second
photo and passing through two deep cuttings, was completed early enough to be
shown on a street map dated 1953.
Don
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Street in Dunedin from the Highgate corner: one taken during the era of the
cable tramline that closed in 1947; the other, my own picture dating from 1962.
The attached scan is from a government map at the scale of 1:63360 (one inch to
a mile.) The map was drawn in 1942 and revised in 1947, just before closure of
the line that figured in the discussion.
Don't know about your screen, but on mine the 1000-yard gridlines (remember,
this map was drawn to the old military grid) are spaced just over 1.53 inches
apart. So I make the onscreen scale to be 1:23600 more or less.
It was not finely-enough drawn to show the ups and downs of the cable lines
(contour interval is 100 ft = 30 m) but at least you can see how the Stuart
Street and Roslyn lines crossed the Town Belt on reserved track.
All of Dunedin's cable lines are shown, namely, from south to north:
- The Mornington line running southwest up High Street (closed 2 March 1957)
connecting at the outer end with
- The Maryhill line running southerly at a 90 degree angle. Its dizzying
gradients (maximum 1 in 3.5) likewise can't be made out on the map. (closed 24
Feb 1956)
- The Roslyn line, climbing up Rattray Street from the Exchange (corner of
High and Princes Streets), then descending to a western terminus in the
Kaikorai Valley. (closed 26 Oct 1951)
- The Stuart Street line (formerly Dunedin and Kaikorai Tram Co Ltd) taking a
bending route northwestward from the upper Octagon and likewise descending from
the summit to an outer terminus in the Kaikorai Valley. (closed 31 July 1947)
The yellow dot marks the Highgate Street crossing from which both photos were
shot, looking southeast down Stuart Street towards the city.
The transformation of this route into the motor highway shown in the second
photo and passing through two deep cuttings, was completed early enough to be
shown on a street map dated 1953.
Don
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