Waverley Bus Depot
| Main Sydney Tram System | |
 Northbound view along York Road | |
| Operation | |
|---|---|
| Locale | Cnr Oxford St & York Rd, Bondi Junction |
| Open | 7 September 1902 |
| Owner(s) | Sydney Buses |
| Operator(s) | New South Wales Tramways |
| Infrastructure | |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
| Depot(s) | Waverley Tram Depot |
| Website | Service NSW Waverley Bus Depot |
Waverley Bus Depot is a bus depot in the Sydney suburb of Bondi Junction operated by Sydney Buses.
History
Waverley Tram Depot opened on 7 September as a seventeen road depot on the corner of Oxford Street and York Road, Bondi Junction. It provided trams that operated the Bondi and Bronte routes.[1]
The depot closed on 27 June 1959 for conversion a to bus depot. Today only the southern section of the car shed remains, the northern section having been demolished. It remains in use as Sydney Buses' Waverley depot. As at January 2016, it had an allocation of 186 buses.[2]
Design
The side elevations looking west to Centennial Park were designed with stepped Dutch gables with circular ventilation openings.[3] Including:
- 17 tracks
- brick gabled parapet
- brick stepped style gables, with circular vents
- Roof orientation to south
Gallery
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Interior view c.1959
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Stepped style gables, with circular vents
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Circular vent detail
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Northern section of the depot now in use by Sydney Buses
- ↑ Keenan, David (1979). Tramways of Sydney. Sans Souci: Transit Press. p. 18. ISBN 0 909338 02 7.
- ↑ State Transit Authority - Waverley Australian Bus Fleet Lists
- ↑ "Comparative Analysis" (PDF). City of Sydney.
External links
Media related to Waverley Bus Depot at Wikimedia Commons- Service NSW
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