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| Thread ID: 150478 | 2022-02-15 23:39:00 | Nostalgia for Aucklanders | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1484340 | 2022-02-17 04:27:00 | C class loco at the bottom of Queen St with a semisteel and streamliner trams (lightrail) waiting to go. I was about 10 when the trams went but wasn't living in Auckland at the time . Late 1940s?? The last tram in Auckland ran at the end of December 1956. I was not living in Auckland, either, at that time. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1484341 | 2022-02-17 05:11:00 | Banal for you maybe, I have seen old pics of the CBD before but never knew they had trains like that in the middle of it. You never noticed the old rail lines down in that area by the ferry terminal? They were there when I was a kid, at least. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1484342 | 2022-02-17 20:07:00 | The last tram in Auckland ran at the end of December 1956. I was not living in Auckland, either, at that time. Interesting. Thats before I was born, so am I must be remembering Trolly buses & thinking they where trams ? Does the Tram that Motat runs count :) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1484343 | 2022-02-17 20:42:00 | Interesting. Does the Tram that Motat runs count :) Motat has more than one example of trams. And if you have a look at the rails, you will see that there are three rails. That is because they run two gauges - the standard gauges that most trams use (4') and the Wellington gauge that was slightly narrower (3'6"). Apparently the reason for the narrow gauge was that Wellington's streets were narrow, although I fail to see why that smaller gauge would make much difference. (And to give you an example of how wide 3'6" looks, our railways' gauge is 3'6".) I rode the trams in Wellington in my youth in the 50s. There were three types that I recall, a three compartment tram, a more modern single compartment with automatic doors and steps and a double decker, the latter which I only had a ride on once (upstairs, of course) because I lived in Hataitai and the double deckers did not run to Hataitai as they were too tall to run through the Haitaitai Tunnel. In those days they were called "tram lines" not "tram tracks." |
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