Re: Tunnel under the Opera house?

["James" <outrun@mpzx.com.au>]

The shaft that you are talking about if I remember correctly used to be
stairs, this however was burnt out some time ago...

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James

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Someone Else <croyle@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Derick Wuen wrote in message <3837debf.0@iridium.webone.com.au>...
> >Oh no!
> >
> >Don't tell me there is General MacArthur's private tram and the rest of
the
> >strategic Sydney tram reserve down there!
> >
> >neumannc wrote in message <3837E783.542C@ozemail.com.au>...
> >>Dave McL wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Eric Cartman wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Wasn't the site of the Opera House a tram depot at one stage?
> >>>
> >>> Yes. Fort McQuarie Depot. The main city depot.
> >>
> >> See  http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/sydhist.html
> >>
> >>Chris
> >
> >
> Ive been through the entire of the used and dissused stjames station and
the
> only thing of interest is the following. A lake under maquarie st with
> tracks on the bottom. some graffiti from 1942. half a dissused station
that
> was playing beethoven on the speakers at the time.
> something weird though, there is a shaft under macquarie st that goes upto
> road level that you can hear cars from.
> st james is great. once i slept on the dissused platform after a long
night
> :) ahh the memories.
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