page_title: Trams in Sydney
section_title: Henderson Road (Erskineville) Line
hierarchical_section_title: Trams in Sydney / Eastern Suburbs Lines / Henderson Road (Erskineville) Line
caption_attribution_description: Tram and dump truck collision Botany Road Mascot/Tram victorious
context_page_description: The Sydney tramway network served the inner suburbs of Sydney, Australia from 1879 until 1961. In its heyday, it was the largest in Australia, the second largest in the Commonwealth of Nations, and one of the largest in the world. The network was heavily worked, with about 1,600 cars in service at any one time at its peak during the 1930s.
  Patronage peaked in 1945 at 405 million passenger journeys. Its maximum street trackage totalled 291 km in 1923.
context_section_description: This short line branched from the Alexandria line tracks at the corner of Henderson and Mitchell Roads in Alexandria and passed along Henderson Road to Park Street in Erskineville, and later to Bridge Street adjacent to Erskineville railway station. Services operated from Circular Quay.
  The line was an electrified single track throughout. The line opened to Park Street in 1906 and to Bridge Street in 1909. The line was an early closure, in 1933. It was replaced by a private bus service that no longer operates.
caption: Botany Road, Mascot, collision between a truck and an O-class tram. The gas pump and women's fashions suggest the early-mid 1940s
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