Re: Site of Rockdale Tram Depot

["Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au>]

I thinks it's owned by the RTA as a future expressway site!

The entrance from Bay Street seems to be a Rockdale City park.

Rgds

Bill
jspinella2000@my-deja.com wrote in message <968muq$tgq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>I was interested to find out what is on the site of the former Rockdale
>Tramway depot which closed in 1949. I assumed blocks of flats or houses
>would have been built on the site.
>I decided to pay a visit to the site. I found that houses surrounded
>the border of the land as they have done even when the depot was open.
>The only way in was through a passage way along the former tramway
>alignment where trams used to enter the depot.
>When I got in there I found a large area of land untouched by any kind
>of development. Nothing has been touched to the site where the depot
>once was. The only thing that has changed is that there was a lot more
>trees and no depot building. I even found an old tramway sleeper on the
>ground along with some ballast.
>Does anybody know who owns this land?