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Waverley Bus Depot

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Open
  
7 September 1902

Depot(s)
  
Waverley Tram Depot

Owner(s)
  
Sydney Buses

Waverley Bus Depot

Locale
  
Cnr Oxford St & York Rd, Bondi Junction

Operator(s)
  
New South Wales Tramways

Track gauge
  
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in)

Waverley Bus Depot is a bus depot in the Sydney suburb of Bondi Junction operated by Sydney Buses.

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History

Waverley Tram Depot opened on 7 September as a seventeen road depot on the corner of Oxford Street 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. It remains in use as Sydney Buses' Waverley depot. As at January 2016, it had an allocation of 186 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
  • brick stepped style gables, with circular vents
  • Roof orientation to south
  • References

    Waverley Bus Depot Wikipedia