Sydney Tramway Museum

Sydney Tramway Museum

. Sydney Tramway Museum is the trading name of the South Pacific Electric Railway (SPER).

The museum was officially opened at its original site at the edge of the Royal National Park by NSW Deputy Premier Pat Hills in 1965. It was subsequently relocated to its new, larger site which opened on March 19, 1988. Besides an extensive collection of trams from Sydney and other Australian and world cities, the tramway museum includes two running lines radiating from the museum. One line runs 1.5 km north almost to Sutherland railway station, paralleling a suburban highway in a way typical of Sydney's previous tram system.

The second utilises a former railway branch line to penetrate 2 km into the Royal National Park that flanks Sydney's southern boundary. This line was previously an extension of CityRail's Illawarra railway line, but the suburban railway line closed in 1991, and Waterfall replaced the station as terminus for the line.

Publications

The Sydney Tramway Museum publishes Trolley Wire on behalf of most tramway museums around the country.

External links

* [http://www.sydneytramwaymuseum.com.au/ Sydney Tramway Museum website]


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