Bondi Junction Tram Early 1950’s

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Bondi Junction Tram Early 1950’s

Bondi Junction Tram Early 1950’s

1950’s Sydney Trams ,Also Bronte Line and Bellview Hill.

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  1. It’s probably one of Sydney’s greatest tragedies losing it’s reliable, extensive, world class tram network. Bring it back!

  2. 1:48
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    I remember those little huts atop poles with retractable ladders running to them.
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    I had a tree that I climed in my street and I thought that those bus monitoring offices/boxes were play-things for adults, whom I was scared of.

  4. Would be filmed in the early 1960s, just prior to closing of the Bondi and Bronte lines. The Bronte terminus has already been converted to allow use by buses, and the North Bondi terminus is being filled in.

  7. My grandfather was a Tram driver and I remember going on a Tram with my mother when I was only four years old. My grandmother lived in Roland Ave, just up from the tunnel at Bondi. After the Trams stopped operating, we used to walk through the tunnel as a short cut to the beach. I knew that there were no more Trams, but walking through the tunnel, I imagined a Tram coming and I would be so glad to see the end of the tunnel. My paternal grandfather worked on the Trams also but tragically was knocked down and killed by a Tram in Broadway, leaving his wife and four children, including my Dad. They did it extremely tough after that.

  11. Anyone have any thoughts on the reason Sydney lost its trams, but Melbourne resisted the push from the foolish but arrogant modernisers?

    2. In Melbourne the combination of the strong unions, new infrastructure and rolling stock and city layout was a major player in the trams surviving the 1950s.

  14. I would suggest this was from the early 1960s just before closure…there was a 1958/9 Holden in a couple of the frames.

  15. The biggest mistake the NSW government ever made removing the trams! I would love to see trans roll all around Sydney as they used to. Might remove some of the traffic issues we currently face

  20. Vile war criminal John Howard’s hero the man who loved England more than Australia removing aboriginals and nuking their land and sold Australia out to the banks creating the reserve banks took lobbyist money from the oil companies to rip up the trams. One of these maggots is still alive and should be in jail for war crimes in Iraq.

  23. At current wasteful installation cost of $270 666 667 per kilometre for the Sydney light rail would give the state government the excuse why they could not bring them back or any railways like the Northern Rivers Casio to Murwillumbah line, which they systematically created the narrative that it was not worth keeping by first, reducing services, closing stations and when people could not rely on the train and found alternative means they, the NSW state government closed the line.

  24. Getting rid of this beautiful scenic tram network and bringing back the currently messed up trams through george st Cbd is just a big fuck up

  25. Getting rid of this beautiful scenic tram network and bringing back the currently messed up trams through george st Cbd is just a big fuck up

  26. Very good sample. Good to see there were wankers back then like the undertaking Holden. The future eh?
    Been to the Loftus museum once in the 1990s and rode one of the modern ones and was blown away how well it performed. They destroyed them at only 10 years old when they closed the system. It was a crime against humanity.

  27. Very good sample. Good to see there were wankers back then like the undertaking Holden. The future eh?
    Been to the Loftus museum once in the 1990s and rode one of the modern ones and was blown away how well it performed. They destroyed them at only 10 years old when they closed the system. It was a crime against humanity.

  35. My dad who is still around, who likes old stuff, trains and trams has said the trams in Sydney and Bondi were bloody useless. The roads are too narrow, they are slow, cost of upkeep of its infrastructure is high and in the way. Cars and buses are much better around Sydney. Anyway great to see a new generation of mindless “I know better” fools causing areas to die with the ripping up of roads and installation once again of expensive trams.

  36. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  37. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  38. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  39. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  40. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  41. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  42. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  43. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  44. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  45. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  46. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  47. Gee Whiz How Cool was that ? As I know these places Very Well indeed , The current and previous State Governments Couldn’t Run a Chook Raffle these Days, Incompetence, Cronyism, Nepotism and Wokeism all mixed together to create a Great Ball of Detritus ?

  60. Sydney probably allowed their infrastructure to deteriorate too much, to the point where they were too expensive to run & patronage was failing.

    Whether this was done intentionally or inadvertently (or both), who knows.

  61. Sydney probably allowed their infrastructure to deteriorate too much, to the point where they were too expensive to run & patronage was failing.

    Whether this was done intentionally or inadvertently (or both), who knows.

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