Sydney Tramway Museum

The Sydney Tramway Museum is a tramway museum on the outskirts of Sydney. It is located right next to the station Loftus of " CityRail " S -Bahn, which is accessible in 45 minutes from the city center. To the Transport Museum includes exhibition halls, workshops and its own museum distance of 3.5 km in length.

The museum was founded in 1950 covers approximately 50 vehicles. In addition to tram railcars from Sydney also vehicles from other Australian cities and from abroad are here, like the Tw in 1054 from the Japanese Nagasaki (or originally Sendai, built in 1952, rebuilt 1969 ), the Tw 2656 from Munich, who Tw 5133 from Berlin ( Reko - Tw, with rod current collector ) or the PCC car 1014 San Francisco. Also, the double-decker trolleybus 19 from the Year 1937 (but only from 1939 in use ) is issued, which was shut down in 1959 with the setting of the trolleybus in Sydney.

Among the more unusual exhibits is one of the prisoner transport railcar 948; inside the cells are still preserved, and newspaper reports tell the story of two prisoners who managed to escape from this car. A brake dummy from the Year 1903 to see. He was on a very steep downhill gradient to the port and should prevent railcar rolled into the harbor. Therefore, he clung to a rope that was like a cable car in a slot and was connected to a counterweight.