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Former Railway Square tram stop re-erected at the Sydney Tramway Museum in July 2016 Royal National Park line in April 2020. Construction of the museum at its original site on the edge of the Royal National Park commenced in August 1956. [1] It was officially opened in March 1965 by NSW Deputy Premier Pat Hills. The facilities were basic ...
The Tramway Museum, St Kilda is Australia's principal museum of the 19th and 20th century trams of Adelaide, South Australia. It is situated at St Kilda, 24 kilometres (10 miles) north of the centre of Adelaide. It is operated by the Australian Electric Transport Museum (SA) Inc., a not-for-profit volunteer organisation affiliated with the ...
The oldest operational tram in the museum's collection is No. 47, a "California Combination" or "Matchbox" tram, built in 1901. The newest tram in the collection is No. 554 a "Four Motor" tram built by the Brisbane City Council after the Paddington tram depot fire, and which entered service in 1964. Other operational trams include a 10 bench ...
The museum has 1 km (1 mi) of electric track, which was previously a part of the Heathcote Junction to Bendigo railway line. The museum initially operated a horse tramway, utilising restored and recreated horse tramway carriages. Electric tram services commenced in the mid-1980s and operated until 2009.
At present the museum has 24 Brisbane trams in its collection, with 6 operational; California type tram 47, Ten Bench tram 65, Baby Dreadnought tram 99, Dropcentre tram 341, Four Motor tram 429, and the last tram built and officially operated in Brisbane, Four Motor Phoenix tram 554. Tramway operations commenced at the museum at Ferny Grove in ...
The Ballarat Tramway Museum is an operating tramway museum, located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The museum is run by volunteers and has a fleet of trams which operate on part of the original horse tramway around Lake Wendouree and the Botanical Gardens .
Aramac Tramway Museum is a heritage-listed former tramway station and now a museum at Boundary Street, Aramac, Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1912 to 1913. It was built from 1912 to 1913.
Launceston Tramway Museum [64] Railtrack Riders, Maydena [65] (rail bikes on National Park—Florentine line) Redwater Creek Railway— 381 mm (15 in) gauge. [66] (formerly Redwater Creek Heritage Museum) Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy [67] (operating ca. 2 km round trip from 23 May 2023, with plans to extend length)