Sydney Tramway Museum

Sydney Tramway Museum Ride a Sydney tram from 100 years ago! The Sydney Tramway Museum is an operating tramway museum The Sydney Tramway Museum began life in 1950.
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From 1957 the Museum operated from a large corrugated iron shed alongside what is now today the Parklink tramline, on the opposite side of the Princes Highway from the current site. In 1988, the Museum moved to its current premises next to Loftus railway station. The museum has an extensive collection of trams from Sydney and cities in Australia and around the world. There are two tram lines from

the museum used to run tram rides for museum visitors. The first runs 1.5 km north almost to Sutherland railway station, paralleling Rawson Avenue in the way Sydney's tram system operated, the second utilises a former railway that once branched off Sydney Train's Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra (T4) railway line that 2 km into the Royal National Park that flanks Sydney's southern boundary. The Sydney Tramway Museum is run entirely by volunteers and self funds its day to day activities, restorations and construction programs from gate takings and donations from the public.

Come to The Shire Street Paws Festival this Saturday! Running 10am-2pm at the Sydney Tramway Museum.
02/09/2026

Come to The Shire Street Paws Festival this Saturday! Running 10am-2pm at the Sydney Tramway Museum.

One hour left till our trams pop out of the shed for another day of rides to Sutherland and the Royal National Park.Come...
29/08/2026

One hour left till our trams pop out of the shed for another day of rides to Sutherland and the Royal National Park.

Come for a visit with the family! Find us open from 10-5, and we’re right next to Loftus station on the T4 Line.

Happening now! SPER Annual General Meeting in the Sutherland Substation Display Hall. Very good roll up! (Only a smal...
29/08/2026

Happening now! SPER Annual General Meeting in the Sutherland Substation Display Hall. Very good roll up! (Only a small number in visible in the image)

Sentimental SaturdayA Postcard in the collection. A Broadhurst photo postcard 1125A. Mint.Watson's Bay, Gap Loop c1910....
28/08/2026

Sentimental Saturday

A Postcard in the collection. A Broadhurst photo postcard 1125A. Mint.

Watson's Bay, Gap Loop c1910. Over the past two weeks we have brought you a couple of views of Watson's Bay featuring J Class trams, both taken from the same spot with almost the same aspect. It must have been a popular location as, yet another similar postcard image has emerged, this time featuring a coupled set of four-wheel K Class trams setting out for the city from Gap Loop. This image isn't dated but is a little later than the previous two images as a large building has appeared in the Naval Reserve area in the centre background that isn't in the two previous views.

The K Class trams were single truck, crossbench trams seating 50 passengers. They featured closed compartments at one end and open seating for smokers at the other. They were capable of coupled operation with the closed ends always being the coupling end. In many respects they were a 'flexible, non-rigid' version of the bogie O Class, which could be used on steeply graded tram lines generally not available to the bogie cars, such as Watson's Bay and a number of the North Sydney lines. The 107 members of the class were built in two batches; Nos 746-802 in 1908-09 and Nos 1280-1329 during 1913. The odd number in the fleet was the result of three K Class being destroyed while under construction at Meadowbank Manufacturing in June 1908. These three trams were not rebuilt but replaced by three new O Class trams.

Come for a tram ride! We’re open today till 3pm.
26/08/2026

Come for a tram ride! We’re open today till 3pm.

23/08/2026
23/08/2026
Watch for trams!
23/08/2026

Watch for trams!

While the Museum is closed to the public of Saturdays, it never slumbers.Saturday’s are work and maintenance days at the...
22/08/2026

While the Museum is closed to the public of Saturdays, it never slumbers.

Saturday’s are work and maintenance days at the Sydney Tramway Museum and even the works trams are out and about. Museum volunteers with all types of skills and interests come together to grow and enhance the Museum; whether it is restoration, track work, lawns and gardens, maintenance, painting, commercial and revenue or just friendly camaraderie.

Best of all… YOU can be part of the team! No matter what skill you have, you’ll be welcome as a volunteer member of the Sydney Tramway Museum.

Address

2 Pitt Street
Loftus, NSW
2232

Opening Hours

Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

+61295423646

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