Re: Neutral Bay tram line

["David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>]

David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz> wrote in article
<367974E0.3185@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>...
> David Martin wrote:
> > 
> > Where exactly was the Neutral Bay tram line's steep hill?
> 
> The ruling grade of the line was 1 in 8.75.
> 
> > Looking at a street directory, I figure the line went down Wycombe St.
But
> > did it cross Kurraba Rd, go into Lower Wycombe Rd, then Hayes St &
terminate
> > at Hayes St Wharf?
> 
> The line went from Neutral Bay Junction south via Wycombe Rd, west into
> Kurraba Rd and south into Hayes St to the wharf. Until 1949 it
> terminated on a special jetty. In 1949 this was declared unsafe and the
> trams then stopped on the grade in Hayes Street.


According to David Keenan's book "The North Sydney Lines" the line on the
wharf was closed on February 25, 1952.







 
> > Where was Shell Cove Loop?
> 
> The Shell Cove Loop began 100 metres south of Neutral Bay Junction and
> meandered two thirds of the way down Wycombe Road.  
> 
>From a point just north of Harrison Street to just south of Raymond Road

The line was originally divided into two staff sections, (1900 -1908) but
these were combined as the timetable did not require crossings.  

> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand
> 
> I remember the Ice Age. It was what they claimed was happening to the
> weather before they invented Global Warming.


Regards

David Bennetts
Canberra
>