Tempe Bus Depot
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| Location | |
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| Location | Cnr Princes Highway & Gannon St, Tempe |
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| Characteristics | |
| Owner | Transport for NSW |
| Operator | Transit Systems |
| Depot code | T |
| History | |
| Opened | 15 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.
History
[edit | edit source]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were leased in 1986 to the Sydney Bus Museum, formally opening in April 1988.[3] The forecourt was used to store withdrawn State Transit buses.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 January 2025, it has an allocation of 97 buses.[8]
Design
[edit | edit source]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:
- 18 tracks
- Decorative front parapet with centred pediment
- Brick panelled side walls
- Roof orientation to south
Gallery
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Depot offices
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Traffic office
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Tram depot shed interior
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Decorative front parapet with centred pediment
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Tram depot shed rear
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Tram depot shed
References
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- ^ "Tempe Depot closes" Fleetline issue 200 March 1992 page 52
- ^ "Tempe Topics" Fleetline issue 156 July 1988 page 164
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- ^ Annual Report Year Ended 30 June 2009 State Transit Authority
- ^ Transit Systems Boosts Inner West Bus Services[permanent dead link] Minister for Transport 13 February 2018
- ^ Transit Systems Sydney - Tempe Australian Bus Fleet Lists
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External links
[edit | edit source]Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
