Tempe Bus Depot (formerly Tempe Tram Depot) is a bus depot in the

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suburb of Tempe. It is currently operated by

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. 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

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and Gannon Street, Tempe. It served the

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and

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 The forecourt was used to store withdrawn State Transit buses.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

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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. As part of the contracting out of region 6, operation of Tempe depot passed from State Transit to

on 1 July 2018. As of November 2022, it has an allocation of 109 buses.

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. As a tram depot its design had: *18 tracks *Decorative front parapet with centred pediment *Brick panelled side walls *Roof orientation to south

Gallery

Image:Tempe Tram Depot Traffic Offices.jpg, Depot offices Image:Tempe Tram Depot Traffic Office.jpg, Traffic office Image:Tempe Tram Depot Interior.jpg, Tram depot shed interior Image:Tempe Tram Depot Shed Entrance.jpg, Decorative front parapet with centred pediment Image:Tempe Tram Depot Rear.jpg, Tram depot shed rear Image:Tempe Tram Depot Shed.jpg, Tram depot shed

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{{SydneyTramNavbox, state=collapsed Bus garages Industrial buildings in Sydney Tram depots in Sydney Transport infrastructure completed in 1912