Re: Camden Trams

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Barry Campbell"
> Tezza wrote in message

> >Except that it was definitely a railway.
> >
> 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.


I've never heard it called a tramway, but people did say "the Camden tram".
The video showed 20, 30, 31 and 41 class hauling passenger cars and freight
trucks and a few coal trains.