Re: Tramways in Wollongong?

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Bradley Torr wrote in message <01bf359b$ecf2c780$381f083d@default>...
>Hi,
>
>In Port Kembla, there is a main road called Military Road... it is 2 lanes
>each way, and leads from near Port Kembla rail station and locomotive
>works, up past the copper smelter and onto Hill Sixty, which was once a
>military encampment and gun emplacement during World War Two.
>
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There were no street tramways in Wollongong, although there was a proposal
for one. Hill Sixty leads on to a headland which is these days occupied by a
picturesque sewage treatment works. This headland was originally connected
to the rest of the world by a tramway of some sort. When I worked there in
1972 it was only possible to drive up the dirt road in my Morris Minor with
a heavy sandbag in the boot. At that stage the Water Board was driving a
tunnell through the hill using a 2 foot gauge tramway for spoil removal.


Barry Campbell