Shooting Through - Chapter 2 - Watsons Bay and Eastern Lines

Sydney Tramway Museum presents 'Shooting Through!'
Memories of the great days of trams in Sydney and Newcastle.
Additional material was added when the original videotape production was transferred to DVD in 2012. However, the production was not remastered so the DVD is videotape quality.
So the production is 16 and 8mm film transferred to video - analogue edited and then later the videotape was transferred to DVD format.
Disc 1 - 2012 DVD edition
Early days
Watson's Bay and Eastern Lines
South-Eastern Lines
South Lines and Trolley Buses
South Western Lines and Enfield.
Disk 2
Western Lines
Newcastle
North Sydney and Manly lines
Out of the Ordinary
Trams in Sydney today
Sydney Tramway Museum
This 2 disc set is available for purchase from the Sydney Tramway Museum. The set also includes a large format map of the former Sydney tram network.

[@fredsalfa]

Amazing footage of Paddington where I live now.

[@davidlang1125]

i managed to ride the Sydney trams a few precious times in the early sixties as a child with my parents. This video took me back to the neighborhoods I knew when I was a student at UNSW and living in the Eastern suburbs. Do you have anything on trams in Strathfield and Homebush, where I spent my childhood years. though I'm not sure if any trams were ever in the Inner West?
Thanks for a very nostalgic journey back to my hometown. Really appreciated the details.
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[@petergraves2085]

Wonderful - thanks for the explanations and commentary. Added a great deal of useful background.

[@dangardave6442]

I grew up across the road from the Signal Station. Fond memories in the late 1960s of flying down the old tram line to Wato Bay on my Malvern Star. It was very fine gravel in those days. Back wheel sliding out through 'the cutting' (called The Glen in this video). Great days indeed.

[@jimboase5005]

Great video; it brought back many memories from my childhood. Thank you for your work.

[@kenwatson5562]

@12.15 That's Five Way Paddington!

[@jamesgovett3225]

What’s with the FE or FC Holden ute travelling up the road in reverse @ 7.32 either that or the trams got its trolley pole back to front and the films in reverse!

[@petergraves2085]

I noticed the roof-top advertisement of "ANA" (Airways). I had hoped - when ANSETT - got into trouble, that it might have been bought by Japan's All Nippon Airways. We just might have seen an "ANSETT-ANA" once again in Australia's skies.

[@neilforbes416]

1:30 Boomerang Street..... They tried to get rid of it but it kept coming back! LOL😁😁😁

[@neilforbes416]

0:40 The R1 class were a step up from the "Pirate" Class....... Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! LOL

[@falcor1969]

It's an R1 type tram, not R1 class tram!

[@neilforbes416]

@@falcor1969 If the *Sydney Tramway Museum* book says "Class", then "Class" it is!

[@falcor1969]

@@neilforbes416 No. The information is false and misleading. I have consulted with many men who worked on the trams during their service. They have all confirmed Sydney's trams were 'types' and not 'class'. As a matter of fact, one of the chaps laughed and said Melbourne's were class and ours were types. I also have copies of plans of most of our trams and on all these plans it reads R type, P type, O type, K type etc. Misinformation has been given to authors and students, publishing companies and even Wikipedia. Sydney's trams were 'types'.

[@petergraves2085]

What year please ? Seems to be very late 1950s - certainly after 1956 (HMV TV advertsiement on the side of one tram)

[@petergraves2085]

Sorry - should have waited. 1960. A very valuable record.

[@griffinrails]

Does anyone know the names of the music used in this film?

[@SydneyTramwayMuseum]

The music pieces in the film were composed by Michael Arrighi.