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(rshsdepot) Bangor, South Australia, Part 3 (The Glenelg interurban, trams of Adelaide and Port Adelaide, the O-Bahn busway, doubledecker rolley buses and unique hospital railway cars)

Part 3 has to do with the interurban in Adelaide, and the trams (streetcars)
in Adelaide and Port Adelaide.

Adelaide Tram history can be found here:
http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/adelhist.html
Electrified 1908, trams still run in Adelaide

Adelaide trams:
First electric tram in Adelaide, 1898, this open top double decker on the
Juliens Patent Electric Traction Co., a storage battery system of Edmond
Julien :  http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/05550/B5468.jpg
Horse drawn (from 1880) double deck tram, before 1910:
http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/pictoria/b/1/7/im/b17918.jpg
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an20886593-22-v
n.d.- 9 in a row on City Street:
http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/bcp/060/06086r.jpg       I wonder why.
To Magill, c. 1880: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/26180/B26075.jpg
A meet on King William Street, c. 1900:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/62250/B62219.jpg
1900 in front of First Bank of Australia:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/62500/B62348.jpg
c. 1905: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/19750/B19668.jpg
King William Street, 1905: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/20770/B20714.jpg
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/55000/B54885.jpg
"Caricature of  horse car driven through streets, 1905:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/39750/B39749.jpg
c. 1908: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/19750/B19616_3.jpg
Adelaide & Suburban Tramways,  1899:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/27180/B26980.jpg
1909: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/11090/B11037.jpg
King William St., 1909: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/55500/B55420.jpg
Adelaide Tramways electric tram, c. 1908:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/19750/B19616_2.jpg
Trial trip, 1908: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/24510/B24342.jpg
Official opening, 1909: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/05060/B4999.jpg
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/39500/B39346.jpg
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/05550/B5489.jpg
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/07570/B7450.jpg
City Bridge, North Adelaide, 1909:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/08470/B8388.jpg
Very nice shot, interesting trolley poles, North Terrace, south side, 1909:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/04550/B4364.jpg
Route 48 to Rosalie:
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/uhtbin/hyperion-image/BCC-B54-3804K
Grenfell Street, c. 1910: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/09390/B9239.jpg
n.d. Victoria Square:
http://libapp.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus/ENQ/PM/FULL1?391276,I       Click
on for bigger picture)
http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/bcp/032/03236r.jpg
Botanic Road, 1912: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/27780/B27584_4.jpg
Last horse bus to Burnside, 1915:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/36840/B36685.jpg
A meet on King William Rd, c. 1916:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/45400/B45178.jpg
King William St, 1922: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/60250/B60153.jpg
King William Rd., 1925. Note Tram Control Point tower on the left:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/60250/B60147.jpg
King William St., 1927: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/60250/B60151.jpg
King William St., 1928: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/60750/B60683.jpg
Municipal Tramways Centennial car, 1936:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/08470/B8334_46.jpg
1937 aerial: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7678450-v

Trolleybus and tram, 1937: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/10100/B9905.jpg
Not called trambus...
Double Deck trolley bus on Port Road, Adelaide, 1941:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/10590/B10507.jpg
Double Deck trolley bus, 1952: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/13040/B12885.jpg
Trolley Bus c. 1953 (0perated to early 1960s):
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/26180/B26176.jpg

The interurban line took over a rail line in 1929.
The railroad had been The Adelaide and Glenelg Railway.  Here is its opening
9/9/1873 at Glenelg:
http://statelibrary.vic.gov.au/miscpics/0/0/1/im/mp001928.jpg
The "H:" cars, built in 1929, are the oldest streetcars still running on a
regular route in Australia, they are 75 year old interurban railway cars
with windows that only go so far up.
New cars in 1930: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/05800/B5590.jpg
First "Triple-Set" express, c. 1930:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/37580/B37390.jpg
Here they are at Glenelg Beach, the
last stop, at the water.:  http://www.patrick-kaufhold.de/adelaide/tram.jpg
This is an interurban route.:
http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/images/glenelg2.jpg
With Palm tree:
http://home.online.no/~kjeti-sa/images/Adelaide%20F/Adelaide%20Glenelg%20Tra
m.JPG
http://lorkers.members.beeb.net/Sydney/Adelaide/TramGleneng.jpg
http://www.subways.net/australia/adel_tram.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/erktram/images/satram01_2001_lge.jpg
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad/7429/tram.jpg
http://www.calvinbadger.com/travel/australia/part_1/page_4/tram.jpg
Glenelg: http://www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/kpaulson/glenelg_tram.jpg
Not the station, other photos show that terminal stop.
Here is the Aldelaide-Glenelg line map:
http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/graphics/glenelg.gif  This is the last tram
line in this city. It was originally a 1600 MM gauge heavy rail line,
converted to 1435 mm gauge in 1929.
http://www.ecobusiness.com.au/tram.gif
http://www.anzwers.org/free/kmsphotos/Australia/1999/oz99_adelaide_tram.jpg
http://www.aussie-info.com/places/sa/adelaide/tram.jpg
http://www.subways.net/australia/adelaide.jpg
http://www.frogandtoad.com.au/genimages/photos/adelaide/tram.gif
http://www.glenelgmotel.com.au/tram.jpg
Here it is downtown Victoria Square:
Then, with streetcars, probably same "H" cars around the Square:
Here is Victoria Square in old days, undated:
http://mview.museum.vic.gov.au/paimages/mm/000/PA000335.JPG
Now, with interurban, now in the park:
http://lorkers.members.beeb.net/Sydney/Adelaide/TramAdelaide.jpg
http://www.tramsandtrolleybuses.com/09af44d0.jpg
http://www.clubplus.com.au/progressive/Images/Tour%20Images/TramatGlenelg.jp
g
Arriving and departing: http://www.tramsandtrolleybuses.com/09cf44d0.jpg
http://home.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~wasner/Galleries/Australien/adelaide-
trambahn.JPG
http://www.railpage.org.au/aetmsa/images/pnv-4926.jpg
http://www.wowest.com.au/1Adelaide_tram.jpg
http://www.abcproject.com/pictures/images/oct/reg/tramad.jpg
http://www.sunnyundmike.de/Adelaide/Tram.jpg
In 2000 the Olympic Torch rode the tram from Glenelg to Morphetville.
Inside a car:  1930: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/05800/B5591.jpg
now: http://www.splitrockllamas.com/TramRidetoGlenlg.jpg
http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~adelaide/images/adelaide/traffic/tram0052.jpg
One car #362 has been restored to its original 1929 appearance, ran on 70th
anniversary and is now at museum. Original clor was silver.:
http://www.railpage.org.au/aetmsa/images/pnv-3671.jpg
map: http://www.clubplus.com.au/progressive/Images/Tour%20Images/map.gif
Here is the Restaurant Tram in Adelaide:
http://www.clubplus.com.au/progressive/tour3.htm

The old tram terminal, Fort MacQuerie:
http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/images/ft_macq.jpg

Port Adelaide had its own isolated tram lines.
Opening of electric tram system at Port Adelaide in front of Town hall,
1917: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/47820/B47722.jpg
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/44620/B44602.jpg
1917: http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/44620/B44601.jpg
Here is a Port Adelaide Birney at St. Kilda on a museumrun.:
http://austtrams.tripod.com/sapres/sap02.jpg

There is also an O-Bahn guided busway in Adelaide. The plan had been to
extend the Glenelg line to Tea Tree with a tunnel through a mountain, but
this busway went in instead.
I personally despise this type system. Here is on the Adelaide- Tea Tree
Plaza route (NE suburbs): http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/images/obahn2.jpg
http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/images/obahn1.jpg   This was done instead of
reinstalling the old tram line on this route.

Adalaide rail, tram and O-Bus map: http://www.reed.edu/~reyn/ADELAIDE.2.GIF

Some unique cars in Australia..
Camp Train cars, c. 1915, Commonwealth Railways:
http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/common/graphics/photos/cr75.jpg
The Hospital car:
http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/common/graphics/photos/cr72.jpg
The Hospital Car 1916:
http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/common/graphics/photos/cr58.jpg




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