Re: [allegedly OT?] [NSW] North and Western routes

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

i think aus.transit is already in existence...


"Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Dave Proctor wrote in message ...
> >I was told not so long ago by a CityRail employee that this a rail
> newsgroup
> >and not a bus newsgroup, and I did not want others to suffer the same
> >consequences.
>
> Maybe the n.g. should be renamed aus.transit?
>
> aus.rail's chief NSW trivia contributor, Ron Besdansky, pointed out some
> time ago that North & Western *IS* a rail subject because it represents the
> NSW Government's re-entry to Parramatta street transport after closure of
> the Parramatta - Northmead fragment of the Castle Hill tramway on
> 01/01/1927.
>
> So now to my keen interest in trivia here.  Ken Butt (sadly, I hear now the
> late Ken Butt) was manager of the Hunters Hill Bus Company and its
> successors for over 30 years.  Somehow, he managed to keep together all the
> very old HHBC registration numbers such as m/o003, m/o613 etc. which went
> back to the 1930s.  He also somehow revived some of the old Longueville Bus
> Co registrations such as m/o174 and m/o 334 which once graced the
> "Longueville Daimlers".
>
> Will the STA keep these registration numbers as a part of Lane Cove /
> Gladesville history, or will the buses inherit ex-Atlantean or ex-Leopard
> number plates as soon as their registration is due?
>
> [keeping the Northmead tramway in aus.rail] Rgds
>
> Bill
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