Tempe Bus Depot

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Tempe Bus Depot
Location
LocationCnr Princes Highway & Gannon St, Tempe
Coordinates 33°55′28″S151°09′36″E / 33.92438°S 151.16007°E / -33.92438; 151.16007
Characteristics
Owner Transport for NSW
Operator Transit Systems
Depot codeT
History
Opened15 September 1912

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

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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 [3] The forecourt was used to store withdrawn State Transit buses.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 but was subsequently also used for other buses. [4] [5] [6] As part of the contracting out of region 6, operation of Tempe depot passed from State Transit to Transit Systems on 1 July 2018. [7]

As of September, it has an allocation of 106 buses. [8]

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

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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. ↑ Transit Systems Boosts Inner West Bus Services Minister for Transport 13 February 2018
  8. ↑ Transit Systems Sydney - Tempe Australian Bus Fleet Lists
  9. ↑ "Comparative Analysis" (PDF). City of Sydney.

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