Sydney Tramway Museum
The Sydney Tramway Museum is a tram museum on the outskirts of the Australian metropolis of Sydney .
It is right next to the Loftus station of the "Cityrail" S-Bahn , which can be reached in 45 minutes from the city center. The transport museum includes exhibition halls, workshops and its own museum route of 3.5 km in length.
The museum , founded in 1950, has around 50 vehicles . Besides tram - railcars from Sydney and vehicles from other Australian cities and from abroad are here, such as the Tw in 1054 from the Japanese Nagasaki (or originally Sendai , built in 1952, rebuilt 1969), the Tw 2656 from Munich , the Tw 5133 from Berlin (Reko-Tw, with pantograph ) or the PCC car 1014 from San Francisco . The double - decker catenary bus 19 from the year of construction 1937 (but only in use from 1939) is also on display, which was parked in Sydney in 1959 when the trolleybus operation ceased.
The 948 prisoner transport railcar is one of the more unusual exhibits ; Inside, the cells are still preserved, and newspaper reports tell the story of two inmates who managed to escape from this car. A brake dummy from 1903 can also be seen. It stood on a very steep incline to the port and was intended to prevent railcars from rolling into the port basin. So it was hanging on a rope that ran in a slot like a cable car and was connected to a counterweight.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 2 ′ 43 ″ S , 151 ° 3 ′ 8 ″ E