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A Melbourne Art Tram designed by Matthew Clarke for the 2017 project. The Melbourne Art Trams is a major public art project in Melbourne, Australia.It is a revival and re-imagining of the Transporting Art project which ran from 1978 to 1993 and saw 36 painted W-class trams rolled out across the Melbourne network.
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 and a visitors centre. Malcolm Tram from the movie "Malcolm"
Melbourne Art Trams have continued to be refreshed and introduced annually since 2013, with over 48 artists featured. In 2018 the program was extended for a further 3 years through to 2021, and featured the first interactive art tram (using augmented reality) designed by Dr Troy Innocent for Melbourne International Games Week. [188]
The Melbourne Tramcar Preservation Association was established 1974 as the Haddon Tramway Workshops. Its first purchase was a former Ballarat tram. [1] It subsequently purchased a number of trams from the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (M&MTB) and one former Victorian Railways tram. [2] [3] A 35 by 14 metres shed was completed in 1979.
In 2016 Cattapan was selected to feature in the Melbourne Art Trams project. [17] As part of the project a Melbourne tram was wrapped in an artistic design of Cattapan's. [17] Cattapan was the subject of the 2016 Archibald Prize finalist Benjamin Aitken's work Portrait of my mentor (Jon Cattapan and self). [18]
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Southbank tram depot opened on 8 February 1997 on the site of the former Montague shipping shed replacing South Melbourne depot. [1] When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Southbank depot passed to Yarra Trams. [2] The depot was extended in 2009 as part of the E-class tram project. [3]
The PMTT was formed under the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust Act 1907 to construct and operate electric trams in the municipalities of Prahran and Malvern.The original members of the trust were Alexander Cameron (Chairman), W. O. Strangward (Secretary), H.S. Dix (Manager and Engineer), S. Bangs, William Knox MLC, Walter Lewis and Thomas Luxton.