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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Seven News Sydney - Flashback: Sydney Trams (22/2/2014) - Length: 3:23 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - The Last Trams in Sydney and Newcastle Feb 1961 - Length: 5:21 mins. |
PHOTOS
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MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL SYDNEY
I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).
Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.
TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Sydney Tramways
Tram routes in Sydney were identified by their termini. The numbers used on the maps and below are strictly for convenience, and were never used by Sydney Tramways itself. Routes ending in A and B (e.g. 12A and 12B) are only distinguished on the maps where they diverge - where they both run, only the number (e.g. 12) is shown.
| 10 | Queen St. - Watson's Bay | Queen Sq. - St Mary's Cathedral - Williams St. - Kings Cross - Double Bay - Rose Bay - Watson's Bay |
| 12A | Circular Quay - Bondi Jnctn. - North Bondi | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Liverpool St. - Oxford St. - Bondi Jnct. - Bondi Beach - North Bondi |
| 12B | Railway - North Bondi | Railway Sq. - Central Station - Elizabeth St. - Liverpool St. - Oxford St. - Bondi Jnct. - Bondi Beach - North Bondi |
| 13 | Circular Quay - Woollahra | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Park St. - Stanley St. - Burton St. - Woollahra (Ocean St.) |
| 14A | Circular Quay - Bronte | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Liverpool St. - Oxford St. - Bondi Jnct. - Bronte Beach |
| 14B | Railway - Bronte | Railway Sq. - Central Station - Elizabeth St. - Liverpool St. - Oxford St. - Bondi Jnct. - Bronte Beach |
| 16A | Circular Quay - Coogee | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Liverpool St. - Oxford St. - Flinders St. - Anzac Parade - Randwick - Coogee Beach |
| 16B | Railway - Coogee | Railway Sq. - Central Station - Elizabeth St. - Cleveland St. - Anzac Parade - Randwick - Coogee Beach |
| 17A | Circular Quay - La Perouse | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Liverpool St. - Oxford St. - Flinders St. - Anzac Parade - Daceyville Jnct. - Maroubra Jnct. - Malabar - La Perouse |
| (17B) | Railway - La Perouse | Railway Sq. - Central Station - Elizabeth St. - Cleveland St. - Anzac Parade - Daceyville Jnct. - Maroubra Jnct. - Malabar- La Perouse [Peak hours only] |
| 18A | Circular Quay - Maroubra Bay | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Liverpool St. - Oxford St. - Flinders St. - Anzac Parade - Daceyville Jnct. - Maroubra Jnct. - Maroubra Bay |
| 18B | Railway - Maroubra Bay | Railway Sq. - Central Station - Elizabeth St. - Cleveland St. - Anzac Parade - Daceyville Jnct. - Maroubra Jnct. - Maroubra Bay |
| (20) | Railway - West Kensington | Railway Sq. - Central Station - Elizabeth St. - Cleveland St. - Crown St. - West Kensington [Peak hours only] |
| 21 | Circular Quay - Botany | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Central Station - Railway Sq. - Botany Rd. - Mascot - Botany (Chelmsford Ave.) |
| 22 | Circular Quay - Alexandria | Circular Quay - Elizabeth St. - Central Station - Railway Sq. - Alexandria - St Peters |
| (40) | Fort Macquarie - Haberfield | Fort Macquarie - Circular Quay - George St. - Railway Sq. - Broadway - Parramatta Rd. - Annandale - Haberfield [Peak hours only] |
| 42 | Fort Macquarie - Leichhardt | Fort Macquarie - Circular Quay - George St. - Railway Sq. - Broadway - Parramatta Rd. - Annandale - Leichhardt |
| 43 | Fort Macquarie - Lilyfield | Fort Macquarie - Circular Quay - George St. - Railway Sq. - Broadway - Parramatta Rd. - Forest Lodge - Booth St. - Lilyfield |
| 45 | Fort Macquarie - Balmain | Fort Macquarie - Circular Quay - George St. - Railway Sq. - Broadway - Parramatta Rd. - Forest Lodge - Rozelle - Darling St. - Balmain (Town Hall) |
| 46 | Fort Macquarie - Glebe Point | Fort Macquarie - Circular Quay - George St. - Railway Sq. - Broadway - Glebe Point Rd. - Glebe Point |
| 51 | Millers Point - Glebe Point | Millers Point - George St. - Railway Sq. - Broadway - Glebe Point Rd. - Glebe Point |
| 60 | Wynyard - Lane Cove | Wynyard Station - Sydney Harbour Bridge - Noth Sydney Station - Gore Hill - Lane Cove |
| 61 | Wynyard - Chatswood | Wynyard Station - Sydney Harbour Bridge - Noth Sydney Station - Willoughby - Chatswood |
| 63 | Wynyard - The Spit | Wynyard Station - Sydney Harbour Bridge - Neutral Bay Jnct. - Military Rd. - Spit Rd Jnct. - The Spit |
| 73 | Athol Wharf - Balmoral | Athol Wharf - Taronga Park (Zoo) - Balmoral Beach |
| 74 | Taronga Zoo - Lane Cove | Taronga Park (Zoo) - Spit Rd. Junction - Military Rd. - Neutral Nay Jnct. - Gore Hill - Lane Cove |
| 75 | Balmoral - Chatswood | Balmoral Beach - Spit Rd. Junction - Military Rd. - Neutral Nay Jnct. - - Willoughby - Chatswood |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tram lines: ? km.
HISTORY
- Horse tramways: 23 Dec. 1861 - 31 Dec. 1866. (Also, short-lived systems in 1879, 1894)
- Steam tramways: 30 Sept. 1879 - 1910 (on the private line Parramatta to Redbank Wharf (Duck River) until 1943).
- Cable tramways: 1894 - 14 Jan. 1905.
- Electric tramways (first generation): 9 Nov. 1890 - 20 Apr. 1892; 8 Dec. 1899 - 25 Feb. 1961.
- Electric tramways (second generation): 11 Aug. 1997 - today.
- Monorail: July 1988 - 30 June 2013.
- Metro: 26 May 2019 - today.
GAUGE
- All tramways: 1435 mm.
- MetrO: 1435 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The Sydney Tramway Museum in Loftus, about 30 km south of the city centre, runs old trams along 3.5 km. of track.
SOURCES
- Keenan, D.R. Tramways of Sydney. Sans Souci (N.S.W.): Transit Press, 1979.
- Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.126: Sydney, Australia" Tramways & Urban Transit, Apr. 2018 (81: 964), p.142-148.
- Sydney Tramway Museum: Visit souvenir. Sutherland (N.S.W.): South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society, 2004
- Taplin, M. "Trams return to Sydney". In: Light Rail Review 8. London: Light Rail Transit Association, 2008 [p.34-39].
WIKIS
- Dulwich Hill Line
- Light rail in Sydney
- Metro North West Line
- Railways in Sydney
- Sydney Metro
- Sydney Monorail
- Trams in Sydney
WEB SITES
- Farewell Sydney monorail
- Map of Sydney’s Tram Network (in voomMAPS)
- Remember Sydney monorail
- Sydney Metro
- Sydney's Tram History
- Transdev
- Transport for NSW
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