Re: Camden Trams

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

Tezza wrote in message
<39e967f5$0$11609$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>...
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>> See previous discussions/flamewars over the legal difference between a
>> railway and a tramway.
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>Except that it was definitely a railway.
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AFAIK it was always legally a railway. It certainly looked like a tramway
with its side of the road running but just because it looks like a tramway
and is called a tramway doesn't mean that it is legally a tramway.


However.... The Camden line and the Morpeth line (which was *never* called
a tramway) were operated for a time using A class tram motors which were
fitted with railway profile wheels. The Camden line also used some tram type
cars coded KA. There was one preserved by the Steam Tram people at
Parramatta Park and it was lost in the unfortunate fire.


Barry Campbell