Tempe Bus Depot (formerly Tempe Tram Depot) is a bus depot in the
Sydney suburb of
Tempe. It is currently operated by
Transit Systems
Transit Systems Group is an Australian-based public transport company, which also operates overseas through its subsidiary Tower Transit Group. Transit Systems Group is a subsidiary of the Kelsian Group, formerly SeaLink Travel Group.
History
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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
Princes Highway and Gannon Street,
Tempe. It served the
Cooks River,
Marrickville
Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Marrickville is located south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local gove ...
and
Dulwich Hill 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 The forecourt was used to store withdrawn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
Leichhardt Leichhardt may refer to:
* Division of Leichhardt, electoral District for the Australian House of Representatives
* Leichhardt Highway, a highway of Queensland, Australia
* Leichhardt Way, an Australian road route
* Leichhardt, New South Wales, inn ...
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
Transit Systems
Transit Systems Group is an Australian-based public transport company, which also operates overseas through its subsidiary Tower Transit Group. Transit Systems Group is a subsidiary of the Kelsian Group, formerly SeaLink Travel Group.
History
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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
References
External links
{{SydneyTramNavbox, state=collapsed
Bus garages
Industrial buildings in Sydney
Tram depots in Sydney
Transport infrastructure completed in 1912