Re: Neutral Bay tram line

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

But wern't there catch points in Hayes St that had to be held over by the
conductor to divert runaways into the gutter??

(From Ron BEST in London)(temporarily)

Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in article
<367fa319.1361726@news.bigpond.com>...
> "David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > No way - you walk up it sometimes from the ferry on a hot day, as I've
> > done, it would have to be at least 1 in 10.
> 
> Hayes St is MUCH less steep than the lower end of Wycombe Rd.  Also if
> it was anything like 1 in 10, trams would never have been permitted to
> terminate on the grade, as they all did after 1952 and as peak hour
> divisions did prior to that.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill
> 
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