Re: [NSW] Exposed tram lines in Sydney

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

carrington wrote in message ...

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>Directly opposite is O'Dea St, where a length of single tram line has
>been exposed thru excessive traffic wear on the tarred road surface.
>
>One of my maps of Sydney trams ("Tramways of Sydney", by David R
>Keenan MCIT, Transit Press Sydney 1979) shows - in 1947 - a single
>line running straight ahead off Todman Ave along a tramway
>reservation, through to join up with the intersections of Elizabeth
>St, Bourke St and Joynton Ave Zetland.
>
>Was this always a "road" (with vehicular access) or was it purely a
>reservation for trams between Zetland and West Kensington?
>
AFAIK it started off as a tramway reservation but it then became a road
containing a meandering tramline, then just a road.

Was it named after Ernie O'Dea?

Barry Campbell