Tempe Bus Depot

Tempe Tram Depot
Main Sydney Tram System

Tempe Tram Depot circa 1920
Operation
Locale Cnr Princes Highway & Gannon St, Tempe
Open 15 September 1912
Operator(s) New South Wales Tramways
Infrastructure
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)

Tempe Bus Depot (formerly Tempe Tram Depot) is a bus depot in the Sydney suburb of Tempe. It is currently operated by the State Transit Authority. The depot survived the closure of Sydney's former tram network and provided storage for the buses that replaced the trams.

History

Tempe Tram Depot opened on 15 September 1912 as an eighteen road depot on the corner of the Princes Highway and Gannon Street, Tempe. It served the Cooks River, Marrickville and Dulwich Hill lines.[1]

It closed on 20 November 1954 to become a bus depot, that in turn closed in January 1992.[2] The tramshed and outlying offices were leased in 1986 to the Sydney Bus Museum, formally opening in April 1988.[3] The forecourt was used to store withdrawn State Transit Authority buses.

The Sydney Bus Museum relocated to Leichhardt in 2010, with the depot refurbished and reopened as a bus depot for Metrobus vehicles in 2010.[4][5][6] As at January 2016, it had an allocation of 82 buses.[7]

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.[8] As a tram depot its design had:

References

  1. ↑ Keenan, David (1979). Tramways of Sydney. Sans Souci: Transit Press. p. 18. ISBN 0 909338 02 7.
  2. ↑ "Tempe Depot closes" Fleetline issue 200 March 1992 page 52
  3. ↑ "Tempe Topics" Fleetline issue 156 July 1988 page 164
  4. ↑ Marrickville Council. "Tempe Bus Depot, 745-763 Princes Highway and 1A and 1B Gannon Street, Tempe" (PDF).
  5. ↑ State Transit Authority. "Statement of Environment Effects" (PDF).
  6. ↑ Annual Report Year Ended 30 June 2009 State Transit Authority
  7. ↑ State Transit Authority - Tempe Australian Bus Fleet Lists
  8. ↑ "Comparative Analysis" (PDF). City of Sydney.

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Coordinates: 33°55′28″S 151°09′36″E / 33.92438°S 151.16007°E / -33.92438; 151.16007

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