Sydney Tramway Museum
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| Established | 1950 |
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| Location |
Pitt Street, Loftus New South Wales Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°02′40″S 151°03′07″E / 34.044321°S 151.051966°E |
| Type | Tramway museum |
| Nearest car park | On site |
| Website | Official Site |
Pitt Street, Loftus
The Sydney Tramway Museum is Australia's oldest tramway museum and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It is located in Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney.
The museum was officially opened at its original site on the edge of the Royal National Park by NSW Deputy Premier Pat Hills in 1965. It was relocated to a larger site across the Princes Highway adjacent to Loftus railway station which opened on 19 March 1988.
On 23 October 2015 at about 11:00 to 11:30 pm a museum storage shed caught fire and was destroyed. Located off the main museum site, at its 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. The shed and contents were destroyed. One tram lost, 1898 C12, was within weeks of being completely restored after months of work.
The museum has an extensive collection of trams from Sydney and cities in Australia and around the world. There are two tram lines radiating from the museum that are used to run tram rides for museum visitors.
One line runs 1.5 km north towards Sutherland railway station, paralleling Rawson Avenue in the way that parts of Sydney's tram system operated.
The second runs to the south and utilises the Royal National Park branch railway line that was constructed in 1886 and closed to trains in June 1991. In 1993 the Museum converted the line to light rail standards and connected it to the then existing Sutherland line to establish what is now a most popular means of access to the world's second oldest national park.
The Museum is open, and trams operate, on Wednesdays, Sundays, most Public Holidays and on selected weekdays during school holidays. Charter operations can be arranged for other days
The Sydney Tramway Museum is run entirely by volunteers and self funds its day-to-day activities, restorations and construction programs from gate takings and donations from the public.
R1-class Tram 1979
Tram 393
Tram Controller
Makers Emblem
O-class Tram 805
Tram Signage
P-class Tram 1497
Drivers Cab
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