Australian Tram History

History

Almost all major cities in Australia ran trams in the past (well, if your town was to be taken seriously, it just had to have them). Click on the map below [8] to find out more about the trams of the cities. [Map, with links. The links are all repeated below]

[Map, with links. The links are all repeated below]

(Not all cities have information pages yet - the links are disabled for those that don't.) For a general, Australia-wide description of Australian Trams, click on the map away from any cities. Some efforts have been made to preserve historic rolling stock in various museums around the country.


General, Australia-wide, description including: Horse Trams Steam Trams Cable Trams Electric Trams California Combination cars Early two-bogie cars Toastrack trams Drop-centre trams Birney cars PCC cars Chopper-controlled and articulated trams	City by city descriptions (including tram fleet details):
	Adelaide/Port Adelaide Ballarat Bendigo Brisbane Broken Hill Fremantle Geelong Hobart (map only) Kalgoorlie	Launceston (by others) Leonora Maitland Melbourne Newcastle Perth Rockhampton Sydney Victor Harbor

(I will add links to this list as I gather more information...)

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