Sydney Tramway Museum

Shoot through on a Bondi tram! or
Take the tram with PARKLINK to the Royal National Park!

Australia's oldest tramway museum (founded in 1950) and the largest in the southern hemisphere is located in the southern Sydney suburb of Loftus.

		Pitt Street, Loftus Phone (02) 9542 3646 Fax (02) 9545 3390 Right at Loftus Railway Station
		P.O. Box 103, Sutherland, NSW, 2232
Open
Sundays and Public Holidays	1000 - 1700
Wednesdays	0930 - 1530

Royal National Park service operates Sundays and Public Holidays.

The museum contains a large display hall, kiosk, shop, picnic areas, running shed and restoration building.

The Sydney tramway service was a world class undertaking operating 1535 tramcars at its peak. In 1944/45 it carried over 404.6 million passengers. An excellent video (VHS PAL or NTSC format) on the system, "Shooting Through", is available from the Museum.

Royal National Park service

Sydney trams

• C-class cars 290 (Australia's oldest preserved electric car) and 29, single truck saloon cars;
• D-class cars 102 and 117, single truck California combination;
• E-class cars 529 & 530, permanently coupled single truck crossbench;
• F-class car 393, bogie California combination;
• K-class car 1296, single truck combination crossbench;
• L/P-class car 154, bogie 70 seat crossbench;
• N-class car 728, bogie 70 seat crossbench;
• O-class cars 957, 1111 and 1030, bogie 80 seat crossbench (Sydney's icon tram with 626 built between 1908 and 1914);
• O/P car 1089, bogie 80 seat crossbench;
• P-class 1497, bogie 80 seat crossbench;
• PR1-class car 1573 bogie saloon;
• R-class car 1740, bogie dropcentre saloon;
• R/R1-class car 1933, bogie saloon;
• R1-class cars 1951, 1971, 1979 and 2044, bogie saloon;
• Prison Car 948.
• Examples of freight, service and grass burning cars are also included, together with trolley bus 19.

Interstate trams

• Brisbane cars,
  • 71 single truck crossbench,
  • 180 bogie saloon (Dreadnought),
  • 295 dropcentre saloon
  • 548 bogie saloon (FM-class)
• Ballarat, 12 single truck saloon (ex Geelong, before that MMTB A [formerly J]-class 71, originally PMTT No. 71)
• Ballarat, 37 bogie dropcentre (formerly Geelong 35, before that Bendigo 1, before that MMTB C [formerly N]-class 119, originally HTT No. 13);
• Melbourne, cable grip No. 322, W2-class no. 392, and W5-class no. 792.

Overseas trams

• BVG Berlin cars 3007 model TZ69, 3008 model TZ69 and trailer 3717 model BZ69
• Nagasaki 1054 bogie saloon car;
• San Francisco double ended PCC car 1014;

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Thanks to Ian Stevens, stevensi@mackie.edfac.usyd.edu.au, and Greg Sutherland, sutherlg@www.nsw.gov.au for the information on this page.