The Tasmanian Transport Museum

The Tasmanian Transport Museum is a museum located in Glenorchy, Tasmania, keeping and showing a group relating to Tasmanian transport records along with gadgets which includes locomotives, carriages, ephemera and railroadiana. In 1960, the Metropolitan Transport Trust donated a Hobart tramcar to be preserved, and as a end result the Tasmanian Transport Museum Society was based in 1962, with the intention of maintaining representative gadgets of shipping interest that had been disappearing from everyday existence.

The first decade of the Society's life noticed the maintenance of many gadgets that were donated or purchased, and it became now not till 1972 that a website adjacent to the railway station in Glenorchy changed into leased from the Glenorchy City Council. After the laying of music, the first objects were moved there in 1976. After this time, the museum prospered in building on the website online, with an electric powered traction shed built in 1976, in addition to the Steam Technology constructing in 1983, a carriage shed in 1984 and a roundhouse in 1986.

The maximum current additions to the museum consist of a Fire Services shed finished in 2004, and a Road Transport shed finished in 2013. In 1979, after the cessation of passenger educate services in Tasmania, the Museum bought and moved the former New Town railway station building to the web site in sections, and this changed into finished in 1980. The Museum also received a railway turntable from Brighton and a sign cabin from the Botanical Gardens railway halt.