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Trams in Hay Street in 1949 The restored B15 Tram, built in 1899, on display in South Perth. According to one source, [ 1 ] the central city terminus of the short lived horse tramway was the General Post Office , which was then located within the Treasury Building , at the corner of St Georges Terrace and Barrack Street .
In October 1903 the horse tramways of the Perth and District Tramways were taken over by Perth Corporation. An initial experiment with a petrol tram was unsuccessful and electric service began on 31 October 1905. [3] The main route was from Scone to Cherrybank. There were branches to Craigie and to Dunkeld Road.
PETS owns a fleet of 29 trams and 3 trolleybuses, mainly former Perth and Melbourne trams. Examples of former Fremantle and Kalgoorlie trams also form part of the fleet. [8] Notably, the society's tramway is standard gauge, requiring West Australian trams to be regauged from their original narrow gauge when restored for operation. [4]
British Columbia Electric Railway streetcar no. 229, operating on route 5 Robson, 1948.. This is a list of street railways in Canada by province. Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut are the only places in Canada to not have had any tram (streetcar) system.
Trams in Perth; Perth Electric Tramway Society This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 13:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A total of 36 trams entered service on the Fremantle tram network between 1905 and 1939. [ 9 ] [ 19 ] Most of them remained in service until 1949 or later. [ 19 ] Unlike their Perth counterparts, the various classes of Fremantle tram were not officially allocated any class designator code.
The initial electric tram infrastructure in Perth was privately funded. The government took over the running of trams in 1914, with the aim of better co-ordinating the network. Trams were an integral part of the public transport system in the early 20th century until the advent of the private automobile. However, long term lack of government ...
The first railway in Perth was the Eastern Railway from Fremantle to Guildford via Perth, which opened on 1 March 1881. Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) was formed in 1890 as the operator of railways in Perth and Western Australia. The South Western Railway opened on 2 May 1893. On 28 September 1899, the first trams in Perth begin ...