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Re: Camden Trams
- Subject: Re: Camden Trams
- From: "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 01:13:44 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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"John Kerr" <jkerr@gil.com.au> wrote in message
3a02b631_1@news.bne.gil.com.au">news:3a02b631_1@news.bne.gil.com.au...
> The last of the Camden tram was a great weekend. I was in Canberra on
> vacation work, others came from Melbourne, quite a number of us slept in the
> waiting room at Campbelltown and travelled on most of the last day's regular
> trips. The tiger cutout was commander from the local service station and we
> had the tiger in the tank. Lots of motorcaders on the road caused heaps of
> congestion. One of the biggest fan turnouts to that time I think - certainly
> as a Queenslander I hadn't seen anything like it.
You should check out the video, you may be on it.
> But also sad that a
> heavily graded line that would have been fine with electric traction was cut
> off - would it not be rather valuable now? or am I one-eyed. John Kerr
Only as a passenger line. Camden council and commuters have been making noises
for years to get an extension out that way, but it couldn't run the original
route. Maybe as an extension through Glenlee coal washery.