Trams of Australia
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O class

[Link to picture of O class trams] Nos: 803 - 947, 949 - 1279, 1330 - 1479 (626 cars)
Introduced: 1908 - 1914
Last withdrawn: 1958
Electrics: 4 x 40hp motors
Size: length 13.85 m
Seating: 80/80?

Here is Sydney's classic tram. It is a two-bogie toastrack, or all crossbench seating tram. There had been earlier, smaller toastrack trams on the Sydney system, notably the unusual E-class, and the N-class, but this was the design which really took off. The seating is part open, part closed (ie. with doors).

The tram also introduced four-motor, equal wheel drive (some years ahead of Melbourne's L-class, which did the same there) and in addition, it was equipped for multiple unit control.

Preserved O-class trams

O/P

Nos: ?? (11 cars)
First introduced: 1918 - 1948
Last withdrawn: 1958
Electrics: 4 x 40hp motors
Size: length 13.85 m
Seating/Crush load: 80/80?

A number of accident damaged O-class cars were re-built to resemble the newer P-class, even before the first P cars had been built.

Preserved O/P-class trams


[9] Thanks to Greg Sutherland for the picture of tram 1111.

[16] Thanks to Ian Stevens and the Sydney Tramway Museum for the other picture.