Looks like many passengers didn't pay before they got off!
@justajellydonut29 күн бұрын
0:19 ‘I return 2017’ - close enough
@michaelmallal910123 күн бұрын
Brisbane and Melb kept their trams; now we have reintroduced them.
@SydneyTramwayMuseum7 күн бұрын
Small correction, Brisbane closed its tramway system in April 1969 (without a replacement)
@utareangara552924 күн бұрын
Its funny. 60 years agio they were taken away. Now we just have a uses toy tram. I remember we went on the free weekend after they opened as a trip ito the city
@richardbuttrose526826 күн бұрын
it's all much, MUCH older than they say it is in the 'history' books.
@Gary-vv5gtАй бұрын
Ahh machines were working back then, then after a few years went broke and never fixed until opal came along
@victorsauvage1890Ай бұрын
Beautiful
@SydneyTramwayMuseum27 күн бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@poxbox3030Ай бұрын
Nice! Out of curiosity what inverter is installed on 358?
@SydneyTramwayMuseumАй бұрын
There is a power inverter fitted to the car (during a previous refurbishment in the 1980s ) which provides a step down to 24V DC to provide power for auxiliary equipment. As part of the most recent overhaul we have replaced this with a complete new-build unit as the old one had failed completely.
@poxbox3030Ай бұрын
@SydneyTramwayMuseum OK. Would there be any chance to get some info on the new built inverter? We are trying to restore 372 in Perth but we also have a failed inverter. We have not been able to find a suitable replacement or alternative.
@SydneyTramwayMuseumАй бұрын
@poxbox3030 Ours was custom built by a former contact we no longer have access to.
@user-gk8gg1zt7lАй бұрын
...Very nice video, LIKE...
@SydneyTramwayMuseumАй бұрын
Many thanks!
@johnstewart1841Ай бұрын
What a fabulous asset that was junked. Makes one wonder how this decision was reached. US consultants perhaps!
@johnstewart1841Ай бұрын
What a fabulous series of films. I'm in my 80th year and loving re-living this wonderful era. Bravo.
@zacktoby2 ай бұрын
Thanks I never travelled on the Bondi tram but I rode the second last tram to La Perouse. I was a regular commuter on the La Perouse tram and it cost me a silver thrupence (if I could not bluff the tram conductor). If I managed to dodge the fare I would buy myself a vanilla slice with mock cream.
@kevinmaddison69792 ай бұрын
Loved it. My father was a tram driver and we lived around the Maroubra area. So sad they took the trams away. Very efficient transport
@peregrinemccauley50102 ай бұрын
Where did the time go. Surreal.
@chrislincoln74552 ай бұрын
Awesome to see Sydney as my dad & his dad saw it..what a treat !!!
@500carl2 ай бұрын
The tram rail tracks on the right handside of Glebe Point road running sout to north at 9.12 to 9.22 are partly still there. I hope they remain there as a record to the past. Sydney was a finer place back then - I wish I was around then and not now.
@tompchromedome3 ай бұрын
All those people are dead
@mikenelson43583 ай бұрын
Delightful, beautifully imagined and well shot. Well done.
@rangertocpt4 ай бұрын
I remember Norm. He and my father were friends
@NOYFB4 ай бұрын
The treeless Inner West of the 1950s is very different in 2024.
@davidlang11254 ай бұрын
Great work in rescuing history from being lost forever. Look forward to seeing the tram museum when I next visit Sydney, my hometown. From California.
@stevie-ray20204 ай бұрын
6:46 Victoria Rd, White Bay, looking north then south as tram comes from the direction of Glebe Island Bridge & Pyrmont (Sydney). 6:58 Victoria Rd, White Bay, looking south as tram heading other direction into city towards Glebe Island Bridge & Pyrmont Bridge.
@stevie-ray20204 ай бұрын
6:22 Lyons Rd intersection with Victoria Rd looking towards Sydney. 6:28 Original two-lane Iron Cove Road Bridge (which was far too narrow), looking towards Rozelle/Balmain, with the newer Iron Cove Bridge under construction to the left which was first four narrow lanes, then three lanes with an out-rigger lane on south-western side). (Latest curved bridge is sited approximately above where the original bridge was located.)
@robertx45504 ай бұрын
Lots of Neutral Bay action here
@pbruce444 ай бұрын
High rotation for this one, interesting in every way.
@rangertocpt5 ай бұрын
Norm often came to see us in Alexandria during the mid 1950s.
@nuzzoification6 ай бұрын
This is a beautiful vid
@rjl1109195816 ай бұрын
THANK YOU SHARING GREAT HISTORY VIDEO ON SYDNEY TRANSPORT
@paulashley12326 ай бұрын
Fabulous video
@RangaTurk6 ай бұрын
Great to see that steps are being made to preserve Loftus Junction signal box. It is significant because it is the first signal box in the metropolitan area as the wires used to just start before it if the train was coming from the Wollongong direction. If you look at the brick substation in the background I'm surprised that Mortdale Maintenance Centre was not built at the location of this museum. You guys are lucky to have got this site. Look where Hornsby Maintenance Centre is in relation to the terminus station. You could send an early morning service back to Royal National Park to start the City Circle service there without anyone near the mainline barely noticing like what you do with the trams on that back line.
@RangaTurk6 ай бұрын
The Manly Line closed prematurely in 1942 during the petrol rationing period.
@peterkirgan29216 ай бұрын
I wish we still had these !! Bloody nsw govt!! Get rid of anything useful see there alot of taxi cabs on the streets?? Try finding one nowadays???? Lol
@kenwatson55626 ай бұрын
@12.15 That's Five Way Paddington!
@davidlang11257 ай бұрын
Such an important piece of heritage now has a chance of restoration for future generations to appreciate. Former Sydney resident, from California.
@kenwatson55627 ай бұрын
@ 21.30 Features east bound journey from Oxford Street Taylor Square through to Paddington town Hall on the right.
@hilaryrubinstein90228 ай бұрын
Sydney looks remarkably tenth rate and slum like in the "good old days."
@fredsalfa9 ай бұрын
Amazing footage of Paddington where I live now.
@tomsear19 ай бұрын
One video where I won’t complain music is 2 loud.
@ordinaryman229910 ай бұрын
i'm glad we kept our trams in melbourne they are better than buses !!!
@ordinaryman229910 ай бұрын
i'm glad we kept our trams in melbourne, they are better than buses !!!
@davidlang112510 ай бұрын
Another interesting video from the “Shooting Through” series. Wish I could find the complete series in place so I can binge-watch whichever ones I wanted!
@RGC19810 ай бұрын
Interesting video. I rode trams at that old site on many occasions during the 1960's and 1970's. By the time all this move happened, I had already moved from Sydney to Melbourne Australia. My last visit to the old site was in 1983.
@maureen896611 ай бұрын
Just fantastic travelled on these trams going to school loved them. Have you showed any going thru Annandale if not would like to see them. Thank you.
@victorsauvage189018 күн бұрын
Not Annandale (?) but have seen "Inner West" tram film -- (Would send 'link' but I carelessly did not store it.)
@juiceLoosner11 ай бұрын
Super great vision
@Thespiansewist11 ай бұрын
Haunting Time Machine music
@tompchromedome11 ай бұрын
I would give my left ball to go back
@RobertMurphy-sx8lc11 ай бұрын
Ouch !!!
@kenwatson55627 ай бұрын
@ tompchromedome No you wouldn't. You revisionist phony.
@victorsauvage189019 күн бұрын
Great civilisation - But you may take heart from the fact that whatever were the forces of nature which gave rise to that beautiful civilisation - it was more evolved - and so however far this current reversal extends - some distant civilisation will move towards the same way of life and cityscape which you admire so very much! That same humane, uncomplicated, fully aware, sincere, idealistic and romantic way of life - complete with the sensitively designed architecture - will re-emerge. The grounds upon which I base my prognosis could not be more sound : Ask yourself whether a more evolved man would rather live in the society which inhabited Sydney during the 1930s to the 1950s - Or whether he would prefer to interact with the new generation of petty drudges?
@davidlang112511 ай бұрын
So sad to have lost the trams in Sydney. Now it’s a struggle just to get a few short lines built.
@davidlang112511 ай бұрын
so glad such an important part of Sydney history has been saved for posterity. Look forward to visiting the museum whenever I can return to visit Sydney, my home town. From California.
@davidlang112511 ай бұрын
i managed to ride the Sydney trams a few precious times in the early sixties as a child with my parents. This video took me back to the neighborhoods I knew when I was a student at UNSW and living in the Eastern suburbs. Do you have anything on trams in Strathfield and Homebush, where I spent my childhood years. though I'm not sure if any trams were ever in the Inner West? Thanks for a very nostalgic journey back to my hometown. Really appreciated the details. I've liked and subscribed. From California.
@stephenwenham388711 ай бұрын
Watching this is a real nostalgia trip. I rode out to La Perouse on the morning of the last day and later saw the convoy pass through Taylor Square. I was 10 and thought it was a stupid idea on the part of the NSW Government.