Trams in Sydney - Depots

Depots

• Dowling Street Depot served the lower Eastern Suburbs (Coogee, La Perouse, Clovelly, Maroubra), and inner southern suburbs (Alexandria, Rosebery, Botany). The largest tram depot in Australia, it was the last to close in 1961. Now the site of the Moore Park Homemaker's Supacenta.
• Waverley Depot served the Bondi and Bronte routes. Closed in 1959, now the site of a bus depot.
• Rozelle Depot served the inner western suburbs routes to Leichhardt, Balmain, Birchgrove, Abbotsford and Lilyfield. Closed in 1958, now is empty awaiting redevelopment.
• Newtown Depot served routes via King Street Newtown to Summer Hill, Canterbury, Earlwood, and services to Glebe. Closed in 1957, has been deliberately neglected to the point of collapse. Recently parts of the site have been redeveloped as housing. In 2012 the forecourt was converted into a public plaza, providing a new entrance to Newtown railway station.

• North Sydney Depot served the lines via North Sydney. Closed in 1958. The open part was converted into North Sydney bus depot, while the car sheds were retained and incorporated into a supermarket.
• Ultimo Depot served routes to Pyrmont, Ryde, and Erskineville. It was situated on the eastern side of Harris Street adjacent to the Darling Harbour goods railway. It closed as a tram depot in 1953, becoming a bus depot, which later closed.
• Rushcutters Bay Depot served the Watson's Bay line. Closed in 1960.
• Fort Macquarie Depot served the Circular Quay- Railway service, and services to Woolloomooloo. Closed 1955, now the site of the Sydney Opera House. A large balloon loop encircled the depot allowing trams to turn around without changing ends.

• Manly Depot served the isolated Manly lines until closure in 1939.
• Enfield Depot served the isolated Ashfield- Mortlake/ Cabarita lines. Closed in 1948 and reused as a bus depot until it closed in 1989.
• Rockdale Depot served the isolated Rockdale-Brighton-Le-Sands line. Closed 1949.
• Tempe Depot served the Cooks River and Marrickville/Dulwich Hill lines. Closed 1954, became a bus depot then closed. Used as a storage facility for withdrawn government buses. Former site of the Bus and Truck Museum before the museum moved to Leichhardt. In 2010 it reopened as a bus depot.
• Leichhardt Depot was only a storage depot for trams. Served as a bus depot till a new depot was opened next door in 2009. It is now the site of the Bus and Truck Museum.