Re: Re: Wellington Tram Tunnels

Dear Mr Gamble,

This is the second time you've made reference to the Ansett disaster, the
bottom line is, Air NZ screwed up big time, you Prime Minister did'nt help
by rubbing 17,000 newly unemployed people's noses in it and Air NZ
management awarding themselves huge bonuses saying what clever dicks they
are and then rejecting responsilbility for the entitlements of their
employees, as it stands, it's starting to look like Air NZ is about to fall
over too. As well as being a tram driver, I'm also a qualified pilot with a
lot of friends newly thrown on the scrap heap through no fault of their own.
Now I know NZ and OZ like to poke fun at each other and we do so
mercilessly, but I have always praised the NZ museum movement for the
wonderfull work they have done, especially the work that Christchurch has
done.

So please, let's leave the sniping and bitchiness out of this forum and have
some respect for those who have found themselves out of work and trying to
meet mortgage payments etc., because the great privatisation bandwagon broke
yet another wheel!

Sorry if I have stepped on Peter's toes, it's his list after all.

Greg
----- Original Message -----
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 7:50 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Wellington Tram Tunnels

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "roy winslow" <roy.winslow@a...> wrote:

Although anything NZ is on the nose here in Oz at the moment, I

though I may enquire as to the use of tunnels on Wellington's former
tram system.

That's alright, you'll find all the answers in Oz when all the
hysteria is over. But yes it's so much easier to blame someone else.

On the Wellington Tramway Museum website, I noticed there are

photos of a single track and double track tunnel, is this to mean
that there was two tunnels?

There were 4 tunnels on the tram system, one on the Kelburne cable
car line and whole bunch up the Johnsonville suburban rail line. The

Also, what are there status today?

The longest (Hataitai) was single track so is used only by buses
today. The other three (Seatoun, Karori and Northland) are in use for
normal traffic. The cable car still runs as does the Johnsonville
rail line - but for how much longer?

Rail and tram tunnels have alway interested me, which is a little

stange as Western Australia is not known for its tunnels. We only
ever had one (railway) tunnel of traditional design until the advent
of new metro lines and grade separation in the 1990's.

Roy Winslow

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