Bondi Tram Returns!!!

Hey Basil (Fawlty)
That's enough to bring a tear to any old reprobates eye mate.
On Patrol.

PS; I arrived in Australia after trams wrongly disappeared but I often go to Loftus to see the trams anyway. I can recommend the Tram museum to anyone.

The old grey tram in the picture on the web site (the Brisy tram) brought back a few memories.

Used to catch a tram sometimes to school. :o)
Also remember getting the front wheel of the bicycle caught in the tracks sometimes and ending up going where I didn't want to go. :-(

And driving home along Ipswich Rd to get home, when the tram used to stop in the middle of the road to let people off, and of course the road rule was, tram stops , all cars stop to let people across. And dad mumbling under his breath. But then the race was on to get past the tram before the next tram stop. :-) Don't think modern drivers would survive with those rules.

mr Fawlty ,
It brings back many memories for an old E.Suburbs man . One I can remember is of the cyclists hanging on to the back of the trams going up to Edgecliff from Double Bay.
Thanks ,
Willie .

wow, the old tram museum is still down at Loftus is still going? thought that would have gone by now!

I had some old movie film put onto DVD of Sydney Trams, if anyone wants a copy you know who to ask...

Use to get the Tram from Paradise SA into the City with Mum, to visit Father Xmas in John Martins Magic Cave , Oh those were the days,
Qld Government mumbled something about Trams in the Valley a few years back in the 90s , ain't seen no Trams yet, love trams

Amazing the memories this thread has bought back... As a kid we used to holiday at Broulee on the NSW south coast. On the property stood a large corrugated iron shed, inside the shed was among the other things a working tram, a tractor & a biplane. We were not that interested in the tram being city kids but the tractor was fun to ride on and the plane was never taken out.. The tram had a few hundred yards of track out to the boundary and the overhead wire was held up from the trees...Don't know what sort of tram it was, had a red bumper but was painted an olive green colour...I know Dad & uncle had to start a generator to get it running...Amazing where things turn up though, around the corner from me is a house and out front it has a letterbox made from an old cast iron box with "NSW Tramways & Railways" cast into the door, this place also had some tramtracks running down the driveway but they have gone now....

Stuff turns up on Ebay periodically and sells for more than the 2 crumpets got...
And I spied this ad for some used Aussie trams for sale, the prices quoted are almost what you have to pay for the same thing in N gauge...
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