Ballarat Tramway Museum

The Ballarat Tramway Museum is a working tramway gallery, situated in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The exhibition hall is controlled by volunteers and has an armada of cable cars which work on part of the first steed tramway around Lake Wendouree and the Botanical Gardens. It has a huge research gathering, file of data and in excess of 3,500 things about the Ballarat tramways. The cable cars in Ballarat worked on a substantial system through the city from 1887 until 1971. The Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society was additionally framed in 1971 to start, and run, a valid tramway. In 1978 the general public was joined, as the Ballarat Tourist Tramway. In 1995 they changed the name to the Ballarat Tram Museum Inc.

The main stumble on the historical center's tramway was on 7 December 1974 when Tram No. 27 tried the association with the tramway. Cable car No. 40 was removed from the warehouse and driven along the entire track, had been the keep going cable car to keep running on the SEC network. Passengers were conveyed out of the blue on 24 December 1974, and standard administrations started on 26 December. The track was formally opened on 1 February 1975. The Ballarat Tramway Museum likewise has a 1952 Bedford truck, with a pinnacle to get to the overhead wires. This was initially utilized in Sydney, and conveyed to Ballarat by the SEC in 1961.