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Newtown Tram Depot opened on 1 April 1900 adjacent to Newtown railway station on King Street, Newtown. It initially provided trams on the Glebe Point, Canterbury, Earlwood and Summer Hill lines. It closed on 28 September 1957. [2] [3] It is the oldest remaining tram depot in Sydney that has survived in its original form. It contained: [4]
This Wikipedia article contains material from Newtown Railway Station group and Former Newtown Tramway Depot, entry number 1213 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 13 October 2018.
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In April 1914, the Newtown tram line was extended beyond the tram barns to the Newtown Park Zoo. [101] In 1915, a line connected Newtown with Kilbirnie via Constable Street and Crawford Road. [ 102 ] In 1911, two tramcars were constructed by the Tramways Department for freight and parcel services between the city and the suburbs, and depots ...
Newtown has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: 187–189 Church Street: St Stephen's Anglican Church [32] 15 Carillon Avenue: The Women's College building [33] Great Southern and Western railway: Newtown railway station and Newtown Tram Depot [34] 69–77 King Street: Trocadero [35] 280a King Street: Newtown Mission Uniting Church [36]
Fort Macquarie Tram Depot. Dowling Street Depot served the lower Eastern Suburbs (Coogee, La Perouse, Clovelly, Maroubra), and inner southern suburbs (Alexandria, Rosebery, Botany). The largest tram depot in Australia and it was the last to close in 1961 when the La Perouse line closed. The site is now the Moore Park Homemaker's Supacenta.
One line runs 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north towards Sutherland, paralleling Rawson Avenue in the way that parts of Sydney's tram system operated. The second runs 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the south and utilises the Royal National Park branch railway line that was constructed in 1886 and closed by CityRail in June 1991.
A new access road (now Dalgal Way) to the tram depot was constructed to the west of the tram sheds. [12] [13] All other freestanding buildings within the depot site were also demolished. Summary phases of the former Rozelle Tram Depot site until the 2000s: 1827–1904 Estuarine land, part of Toxteth Estate; 1904–1909 Tram Depot Establishment