Re: [nsw]Tram Stalls on hill

[neumannc <neumannc@ozemail.com.au>]

Ted Gay wrote:
> 
> > Did the early (pre 50s closure of the system) trams use that ramp,
> > indeed did Central have a tram link back then?
> >
> > ... James
> 
> From 1906 to 1957 trams used the colonnade in an anti-clockwise direction.
> The layout was different in that there was a passing loop on the colonnade
> and the track on the ramps was ballasted, no jay-walking pedestrians or car
> parking for SRA staff.  Prior to the openning of the under-ground, 1926 St
> James and 1932 Wynyard when all suburban trains terminated at Central, so
> great was the demand for trams in the morning peak, that after a tram
> arrived at Circular Quay from a suburban destination it had to do a Circular
> Quay-  Central Station-Circular Quay loop before returning to the suburbs.
> 
> It is said that the Pitt St ramp is not as steeply graded as the Castlereagh
> St one.

See a photo at:
http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/sydhist.html

Chris