Re: Tunnel under the Opera house?

["Bob Merchant" <bob.merchant@bigpond.com>]

The shaft leading from the tunnels up to Macquarie Street was a construction
shaft.

Regards
Bob Merchant

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
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| >
| 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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