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Tram 17 – appeal for funds (February 2013)
Above: The body of Tram 17 at the Wellington Tramway Museum. Photo: Keith McGavin
Donations are sought towards the conservation and restoration of Wellington Combination type Tram No.17, - the last known survivor of Wellington’s original (1904) batch of electric tramcars.
The tram body was recovered by the Wellington Tramway Museum in 1986 from Raumati South, Kapiti, where it had been in use as a bach since its withdrawal from service in the mid to late 1940’s. The tram trucks (Brill 22E) will be rebuilt from others of the same type, or new ones made.
A comprehensive conservation plan has been drawn up and the tram will be restored to operating condition – as close as possible to its style of the early 1940’s.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to saving a truly valuable part of Wellington’s heritage.
Above: Tram 19 – the same class as No.17 – departs Wellington Railway Station tram terminus in the evening peak on the 11th January 1950. Photo: Graham Stewart
January 2013
More progress on the restoration of the interior of Tram no 260.
All seats are now installed - the first photo shows the installation nearly complete and the second shows the restoration team having a well earned rest.
Photos by Mike Flinn
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November 2012
The pathway is completed all the way from the Parking area to the Tram Barn.
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Access to our Tram Barn/Museum is now on a concrete pathway right to the door of the Barn. Steps into the Fiducia Centre can also be seen on the left hand side of the photo. Photo by Keith McGavin |
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28 May 2012, Memorial Day
Ensigns at half mast during  |
Trams 151 and 159 parked opposite  |
Governor General and Marine Vets:  |
New Memorial to 10 sailors  |
Kapiti Festival
Saturday the 31st of March 2012
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Big crowds attended the first Kapiti Fest at Queen Elizabeth Park on Saturday the 31st March. Food Stalls, Live Music and Children's entertainment attracted between 4 - 5,000 people to the Beach. Our three vintage Trams carried hundreds to the beach and back during the day. |
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Wellington Trams on YouTube
January 2011: A new video of Wellington Trams on YouTube
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See how the streets of Wellington in New Zealand were like in the sixties. No audio source available. Many thanks to Elliott Young. Source: Archives footage preserved and made available by Archives New Zealand/Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga This video appears to be a compilation put together from a number of different occasions and taken by more than one photographer and includes scenes of the last tram on 2nd May 1964. |
The views of the older type double saloon type tram No.207 were of a special charter trip run by the fledgling Tramway Preservation Association (later to become the Wellington Tramway Museum) on 14th September 1963 - thought to be the last time a tram other than the more modern Fiducia type ran in Wellington's streets.
There are other scenes clearly taken in within the last year of the final tram but in normal service through the middle of Wellington. The last tram was No.252 - - there were three trams which took part in the May 2nd 1964 ceremony at Thorndon (shown in the film) - No. 250 (3rd to last), 251 (2nd to last) and 252 (last). No.252 is preserved at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland.
