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Sydney Vintage Tramway Festival 2024 - Australian trams; Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Ballarat! Here we see Ballarat 37, and Melbourne W2 249 pass coupled Sydney O Class 1111 and 805 | Sydney Tramway Museum

Sydney Vintage Tramway Featival 2024. A highlight of the Festival is the demonstration of many of the service stock trams in the collection. These include breakdown trams, ballast motors, overhead line cars and track grinders. We work these in between or following passenger trams, just like they used to do. Here is former Sydney Essanee Track Grinder No. 2, which was sold to Melbourne, becoming MMTB No. 3. The cab was added by the MMTB! Its role was to grind down corrugations and imperfections i

90 years ago today. On 22 January 1934, Sydney’s first Trolleybus system opened between Sydney Town Hall and St Neot’s Ave, Potts Point via William St and Darlinghurst Rd Kings Cross. The small system used two AEC 661T single deck Trolleybuses and three AEC ‘Q’ type double deck vehicles. Heralded as the eventual successor to Sydney’s trams, the overwhelming size and dominance of Sydney’s tramway system proved too much and the system closed without ceremony in mid-1948 | Sydney Tramway Museum

Another image from last nights highly successful ‘Trams After Dark’ event. This image show one of a number of journey’s where two trams were pressed into service. In this case Sydney R1 Class 1979 and Sydney P Class 1497. | Sydney Tramway Museum

An internal view of Brisbane ‘Dreadnought’ 180 carrying passengers for the first time after clocking up its centenary. The tram entered service on 5 April 1924, making it 100 years and 9 days old today. | Sydney Tramway Museum