Re: Federation Tramway Proposal

[Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>]

David Bennetts wrote:

> Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
> <6no3m6$8hb$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
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> > Barry Campbell wrote in message <6no1m8$r95$2@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
> > >
> > >David Bennetts wrote in message
> > ><01bda798$77e1db80$6e4c0acb@davibenn.pcug.org.au>...
> > >
> > ><snip>
> > >>Have you seen the job
> > >>that Sydney Tramway Museum did on the former wreck of a W2 from
> Newcastle
> > >>and restored for Christchurch.  It's now in immaculate condition and a
> > very
> > >>reliable runner on that city's tourist tramway.
> > >
> > >I'm itregued. How did Newcastle figure in life of a W2?
> > >
> > >
> > >Barry Campbell
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Actually I meant I'm itrigued. But anyway where does Newcastle fit in?
> >
> >
> > Barry Campbell's spellchecker
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>
> Barry and other interested NG readers.
>
> The W2 in question was part of the Newcastle Tramway Museum collection.
> The Museum was for a while operating at Rutherford along a piece of disused
> railway line, with a motor generator mounted on a trailer powering the
> trams.  There were proposals to relocate the Museum into the city area to
> run along the waterfront, and to run from the Stockton ferry terminal
> across the river, but the plans fell through.
>

The W2 was 244.

> The collection deteriorated quite badly through exposure to the weather,
> and without any real source of income, the museum went bankrupt.  The
> Sydney Tramway Museum acquired much of the collection, including the W2
> aforementioned which they restored and leased to the Christchurch Tramway.
> More recently, another of the former Newcastle museum tram bodies has also
> been restored by the Sydney Tramway Museum from a virtual wreck - this was
> a Sydney R Class body, and is now in the Hunter Mall as Newcastle's answer
> to Sydney's famed Harry's Cafe de Wheels.

The R class is No. 1892. It is in fact owned by the famous Harry from Harry's
Care de Wheels and he is planning on having a fleet of trams around Australia
to sell his pies if this one goes well.
Bob