O class

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

• No. 805, at the Powerhouse Museum
• Nos 957, 1111 and 1030, at the Sydney Tramway Museum
• No. 1187, sold to the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society, USA

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

• No. 1089, at the Sydney Tramway Museum

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[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.