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The Tramway Museum, St Kilda operates an extensive fleet of historic South Australian and interstate tram cars and trolley buses. Work began in 1958 with the arrival of donated vehicles, the first of which was an old trolley bus from the Municipal Tramways Trust , and the museum was opened in 1967 as a static display. [ 43 ]
The museum houses an extensive photographic collection of Brisbane's tramway and street transport heritage, together with tickets and uniforms worn by staff of the tramway operators, a feature of which were the unusual "Foreign legion" caps (more correctly called kepis) worn by drivers and conductors until 1961 and inspectors until more recently.
On 23 October 2015, the museum storage shed was broken into by vandals and caught fire. Located off the main museum site, at the museum's original location in the Royal National Park near Loftus Oval, the shed housed the museum's reserve collection of six trams, four buses and a double-decker bus chassis dating to 1937.
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The museum's entrance fee entitles visitors to free afternoon tram rides to and from St Kilda's large adventure playground. From a fleet of more than a dozen operational trams, Type G "Birney" no. 303, Type H ("Glenelg" or "Bay") tram no. 360, Melbourne W7 Class no. 1013 and Type D no. 192 are a typical selection of trams operating on open days.
The Tramway Heritage Centre currently operates as a static museum. The Tramway Heritage Centre has a tramway electric supply substation, two running sheds, an exhibition shed/workshop - that was used as part of the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880, various buildings for the storage of un-restored trams, cable tram cars, motor vehicles ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
Brisbane Opal Museum is a unique museum where people can visit and have a tour and find out for why opal was considered so special that it was declared Australia’s National Gemstone. There is an opal jewellery shop in the same building. Exhibits impressive opal collection and information about opal mining [2] Brisbane Tramway Museum: Ferny Grove