Waverley Bus Depot is a bus depot in the
Sydney suburb of
Bondi Junction operated by
Transdev John Holland
Transdev John Holland Buses is a bus operator in Sydney, Australia. A joint venture between Transdev and John Holland, it operates services in Sydney Bus Region 9 in the Eastern Suburbs under contract to Transport for NSW. It is a separate comp ...
.
History
Waverley Tram Depot opened on 7 September 1902 as a seventeen road depot on the corner of
Oxford Street
Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, with around half a million daily visitors, and ...
and York Road,
Bondi Junction. It provided trams that operated the
Bondi and
Bronte routes.
The depot closed on 27 June 1959 for conversion a to bus depot. Today only the southern section of the car shed remains, the northern section having been demolished.
As part of the contracting out of
Sydney Bus Region 9, operation of Waverley depot passed from
State Transit to
Transdev John Holland
Transdev John Holland Buses is a bus operator in Sydney, Australia. A joint venture between Transdev and John Holland, it operates services in Sydney Bus Region 9 in the Eastern Suburbs under contract to Transport for NSW. It is a separate comp ...
on 2 April 2022.
As of November 2022, it has an allocation of 164 buses.
Design
The side elevations looking west to
Centennial Park were designed with stepped
Dutch gables with circular ventilation openings.
Including:
*17 tracks
*brick gabled
parapet
A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/breast'). ...
*brick stepped style
gables Gables may refer to:
* The plural of gable, portion of walls between the lines of sloping roofs
* Ken Gables (1919-1960), Major League Baseball pitcher
* Gables, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in the United States
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, with circular vents
*Roof orientation to south
Gallery
File:Waverley Tram Depot Interior View.jpg, Interior view c.1959
File:Waverley Tram Depot Parapets.jpg, Stepped style gables, with circular vents
File:Waverley Tram Depot Ventilator.jpg, Circular vent detail
File:STA_Waverley_Depot.jpg, Northern section of the depot now in use by State Transit
References
External links
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Service NSW
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Bus garages
Industrial buildings in Sydney
Tram depots in Sydney
Transport infrastructure completed in 1902