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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Trams in Auckland, New Zealand - 1949 - Length: 1:31 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - MOTAT MEMORIES & OTHER AUCKLAND TRAMWAY HISTORY - Length: 5:39 mins. |
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MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL AUCKLAND
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TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Auckland Transport Board
| A | Chief Post Office - Queen Street - Eden Terrace - Morningside - Mount Albert - Avondale |
| FP | Farmers Trading Co. - Hobson St. - Pitt St. [Free shuttle] |
| GH | Manukau Rd. - Greenlane Hospital [shuttle] |
| GL | Chief Post Office - Hobson St. - Pitt St. - Karangahape Rd. - Ponsonby Rd. - Richmond Rd. - Grey Lynn |
| GS | Chief Post Office - Anzac Av. - Symonds St. - Khyber Pass Rd. - Newmarket - Great South Rd. |
| HF | Chief Post Office - Fanshawe St. - Victoria St. - Three Lamps - Jervois Rd. - Herne Bay |
| HH | Chief Post Office - Hobson St. - Victoria St. - Three Lamps - Jervois Rd. - Herne Bay |
| MB | Chief Post Office - Parnell - Newmarket - Remuera Rd. - Meadowbank |
| MR | Chief Post Office - Queen St. - Wellesley St. - Symonds St. - Eden Terrace - Dominion Rd. - Mount Roskill |
| OH | Chief Post Office - Queen St. - Karangahape Rd. - Khyber Pass Rd. - Newmarket - Manukau Rd. - Royal Oak - Queen St. - Onahunga Wharf |
| OR | Chief Post Office - Queen St. - Wellesley St. - Symonds St. - Eden Terrace - Sandringham Rd. - Owairaka |
| P | Chief Post Office - Queen St. - Wellesley St. - Hobson St. - Pitt St. - Karangahape Rd. - Ponsonby Rd. - Ponsonby (Three Lamps) |
| PC | Chief Post Office - Hobson St. - Pitt St. - Karangahape Rd. - Great North Rd. - Point Chevalier |
| R | Chief Post Office - Parnell - Newmarket - Remuera Rd. - Remuera |
| RW | Railway Station - Queen St. - Town Hall |
| TK | Chief Post Office - Queen St. - Wellesley St. - Symonds St. - Mount Eden Rd. - Three Kings |
| V | QChief Post Office - Queen St. - Wellesley St. - Symonds St. - Khyber Pass Rd. - Newmarket - Remuera Rd. - Victoria Av. |
| W | Chief Post Office - Queen St. - Wellesley St. - Hobson St. - Pitt St. - Karangahape Rd. - Great North Rd. - Surrey Cresc. - Garnet Rd. - Westmere |
| Z | Chief Post Office - Queen St. - Wellesley St. - Hobson St. - Pitt St. - Karangahape Rd. - Great North Rd. - Surrey Cresc. - Auckland Zoo |
NB: Route indications are of an indicative nature only, they were not used by the Auckland Transport Board.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tram lines: 72 km.
HISTORY
- Horse tramways: 1884 - ?
- Steam tramways (in Takapuna, on Auckland's North Shore): 22 Dec. 1910 - 26 Apr. 1927
- Electric tramways: 24 Nov. 1902 - 29 Dec. 1956.
GAUGE
- All tramways: 1435 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The Museum of Transport & Technology in Western Springs, one of Auckland's western suburbs, runs old trams along 1.7 km. of track.
SOURCES
- Pulling, N. "Auckland's rail future", Tramways & Urban Transit, Dec. 2013 (76:912), p.236-237.
- Russell, M. "Keeping Auckland's trams and rarities alive", Tramways & Urban Transit, June 2010 (73:870), p.236-237.
- Stewart, G. Around Auckland by tram in the 1950s. Wellington: Grantham House Publishing, rev.ed., 2002.
- Stewart, G. The end of the penny section: When trams ruled the streets of New Zealand. Wellington: Grantham House Publishing, rev.ed., 1993.
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