Re: Ruterord Branch

["Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@idx.com.au>]

The tramway group went into liquidation.

There has been no new development on the site, as it runs through the former
National textiles plant, and as you will have been aware from the media over
the last twelve months, there has been little activity on that site.

Graham Smith

Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
3AB0A630.B9AB45AD@efs.mq.edu.au">news:3AB0A630.B9AB45AD@efs.mq.edu.au...
> David & Julie Donald wrote:
> >
> > Parts of it were being used, in recent times, by some organisation
running
> > ex-Melbourne trams.
>
> Or perhaps to describe it more accurately, allowing ex Melbourne trams
> (and some other trams) to sit on the tracks and disintegrate. Did these
> trams ever actually turn a wheel at Rutherford? (I think, in fairness,
> that the same organisation did run a tram for a while along the
> riverfront in Newcastle?)