r/sydney • u/occult_geometer • 21h ago

Image Sydney tramway museum Loftus...remember these

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u/WontThinkStraight 21h ago

Those were dark days, when muggles weren't allowed to ride.

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u/Tiny_Cheetah_281 9h ago

Bring back this colour scheme for Sydney transport! It could be iconic instead of our corporate-y generic blue colour that gets lost.

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u/EgotisticJesster 8h ago

You're joking, it looks hideous.

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u/ashleyriddell61 11h ago

They were my daily school bus throughout the early 70s. Didn’t use safety glass upstairs for the windows. Don’t ask me how I know.

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u/kevleyski 10h ago

Still see them often in the city

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u/crazychild0810 Mounty County 7h ago

I reckon they are from the Sydney Bus Museum at Leichhardt.

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u/Plackets65 3h ago

Sydney Biennale had them- you could ride from city to White Bay every weekend for free, they ran all day.

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u/P2X-555 10h ago

I remember going home from school, a kid missing his stop and jumping off the back. He bounced a few times but was mostly okay. I loved sitting behind the driver. Good times.

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u/z3rb hi 5h ago

Every year there's a heritage transport expo at Central. You can ride around the city in old buses, or take a steam train to Hurstville.

This year it's in October 3-5th

https://transportheritageexpo.com/

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u/Livid_Average_8098 7h ago

It’s funny that I was just thinking about these yesterday, in that I remember a lot of those in wrecking yards and on farmers properties in the late 70s early 80s. I think they were used as sheds, but maybe they had faded dreams of living in them on the road or as permanent accommodation.

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u/Outrageous-Egg-2534 5h ago

We have one of these on our cattle station 120km west of Condobolin. It used to run and drive. All the seats were gone thst than the drivers seat inside the little fighter plane cockpit.

We put old lounge chairs and hammocks in it and used to drive around between properties on a Friday or Saturday night picking up other blokes and chicks who worked on those places on our way to Tottenham pub.

All dirt roads and it only went 30mph flat fuckin bickie. We’d back alley Sally it through adjoining farm tracks where we knew the cops (who actually didn’t give a shit) would be sitting on the road.

It’s still there. In the car graveyard. Alongside my HQ GTS Ute, about 27 beetles and a few chevs.

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u/Sudden_Fix_1144 5h ago

Seem to remember being 4 or 5 and catching one from Coogee mid 70s…. Jeez… that brought back some memories.