Wellington Tramway Museum

The Wellington Tramway Museum is placed at Queen Elizabeth Park in New Zealand, close to the overbridge at McKay's Crossing between Paekakariki and Paraparaumu. Trams were in operation on a line thru the park given that 1965. The museum is 45 km. The museum is open each Saturday and Sunday from 11am to four.30pm, and on public holidays besides for Christmas Day. After Christmas the museum opens each day from Boxing Day to Wellington Anniversary Day in past due January. The museum also opens with restrained hours throughout a few school holidays, these dates being advertised on the Museum's website. During open hours tram rides are to be had in a historical past Wellington electric powered tram and visitors are capable of investigate the museum well-knownshows.

The museum maintains nearly 2 km of 4-foot gauge song in Queen Elizabeth Park, as properly a fleet of trams from the closed Wellington gadget, several of that are currently operational with similarly examples in storage or present process healing. The museum additionally owns an ex-Brisbane tram No.236 that is leased to the Tramway Historical Society of Christchurch, the body and chassis of a New Plymouth Birney tram that is on long-term mortgage to the Whanganui Tramways Trust, plus a small series of diesel buses and trolley buses from Wellington and New Plymouth.