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A tram at Watsons Bay in 1960.

Photograph: Peter Sage

Lindsay Bridge Collection

The last days of Sydney's trams – in pictures

The city’s original tram network,

once one of the largest in the world,

was closed between 1955 and 1961.

Contemporary pictures show how different

the city’s streetscape might have looked today,

but for the ruthless decision to prioritise motor transport

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Sat 27 Jul 2019    23.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2019/jul/28/
dying-days-sydney-tram-network-in-pictures

tram        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jun/06/
new-tram-leith-to-edinburgh-food-drink-guide

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/06/
tram-cars-killed-efficient-urban-mass-transport-system-christian-wolmar

Australia > Sydney > tram        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2019/jul/28/
dying-days-sydney-tram-network-in-pictures

streetcar        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/12/
528190480/after-61-years-detroit-gets-a-streetcar-once-more

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/nyregion/torontos-
transit-advice-for-new-york-give-streetcars-their-own-lanes.html

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/25/
story-cities-los-angeles-great-american-streetcar-scandal

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/23/
467813006/revived-streetcars-may-be-on-track-for-disappointment

Corpus of news articles

From The Times Archive

On This Day - July 8, 1952

The first electric trams appeared
in London in the early 1900s.

By the 1930s they were deemed
too noisy and dangerous,
and in 1931 a commission of inquiry
recommended that trams be replaced
by trolleybuses — electrified vehicles
that did not need tracks

THE London tram is no more. The last one groaned to a stop outside New Cross depot early yesterday after a midnight run from Woolwich and had to be assisted on the last short lap of its historic journey. It was a busy day for the tram crews, for crowds piled on to all available cars, and souvenir hunters stripped everything that was easily removed.

The tram selected to make the last journey of all was No. 1951, a route 40 car from Woolwich to New Cross. Great crowds gathered also along the way of the last remaining six services connecting the Embankment with Abbey Wood, Plumstead, and Woolwich, and from Woolwich to Eltham in one direction and the City in the other.

All along its five-mile route from Woolwich to New Cross, the people of Southeast London crowded to wave and cheer the 30-year-old tram on its way. It was driven at first by Driver Albert Fuller, of the New Cross depot, but at Greenwich the controls were taken over by the Mayor of Deptford, Mr F. J. Morris, who piloted it through his own borough.

Later Mr John Cliff, deputy chairman of the London Transport Executive, who began his career 52 years ago as a tramway-man in Leeds, drove it on its last rattle to New Cross depot. Here it became stuck on the point of turning into the depot, and another tram was brought out to help it over the dead spot.

From The Times Archives > On This Day - July 8, 1952,
The Times, 8.7.2005,
http://www.newsint-archive.co.uk/pages/main.as - broken link

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