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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]
Newtown railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Suburban line, serving the Sydney suburb of Newtown, in New South Wales, Australia. It is served by Sydney Trains ' T2 Leppington & Inner West Line and T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line services.
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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.
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]
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.
The depot was enlarged again around 1913 at the rear with an additional four roads. As a former cable tram depot the layout included an attached winding house and boiler house. The winding house was built for the cable tramway from the foot of King Street to Ocean Street, Edgecliff .
The original cable depot served a short cable line to the Milsons Point ferry wharf. A typical cable tram consisted of two vehicles, a leading open tramcar, known as the "dummy" or "grip" car, and a second car that was an enclosed saloon tram or trailer. [4] The system was powered by a large steam winding engine in Ridge Street.