Tempe Tram Depot

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Tempe Tram Depot

Tempe Tramway Depot c.1920
Operation
Locale	Main Sydney Tram System
Open	1911
Close	1954
Operator(s)	New South Wales Tramways
Infrastructure
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge
Depot(s)	Tempe Tram Depot

The Tempe Depot opened in mid 1911 as an eighteen road storage depot and was the last running depot built in Sydney.

Design

The front elevation of the depot carries the wall beyond the ridges of the saw tooth roofs and the parapet line is broken by a centered gable and engaged piers.^[1] As a tram storage depot its design had:

18 tracks
Decorative front parapet with centered pediment
Brick panelled side walls
Roof orientation to south

Operations

Tempe Depot served the Cooks River, Marrickville and Dulwich Hill lines.^[2]

Demise

Closed in 1954 to became a bus depot and used as a storage facility for withdrawn government buses until it closed as an operational depot in the mid 1990s. The Tramshed and outlying offices were leased by the Sydney Bus Museum before the museum moved to Leichhardt.

The depot was redeveloped as an expanded bus depot and Metrobus maintenance centre reopening in 2010.^[3]^[4]

Gallery

Depot Offices
Traffic Office
Tram Depot Shed Interior
Decorative front parapet with centered pedimen
Tram Depot Shed Rear
Tram Depot Shed

References

↑ "Comparative Analysis". City of Sydney.
↑ MacCowan, Ian. The Tramways of New South Wales.
↑ Marrickville Council. "TEMPE BUS DEPOT, 745-763 PRINCES HIGHWAY AND 1A AND 1B GANNON STREET, TEMPE".
↑ State Transit Authority. "Statement of Environment Effects".

Trams and light rail in Sydney

Current network

Inner West Light Rail
CBD and South East Light Rail (proposed)

Former network

Depots	Randwick Workshops Dowling Street Depot Fort Macquarie Depot Leichhardt Depot Manly Depot Newtown Depot Ridge Street Depot Rozelle Depot Rushcutters Bay Depot Tempe Depot Ultimo Depot Waverley Depot

Fleet	Classification System Steam Motors C class D class E class F class G class H class J class K class L class L/P class M class N class O class O/P class P class P/R1 class R class R1 class

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