Hawthorn tram depot, Historic tram museum in Hawthorn district, Melbourne, Australia.
Hawthorn Tram Depot is a transport museum in Melbourne that displays restored trams from different eras of the city's public transport history. The site includes workshop buildings and exhibition spaces where visitors can view the vehicles up close and learn how they operated.
The depot was built in 1916 by the Hawthorn Tramways Trust as an operating facility for the growing tram network. It served for decades as an active maintenance and storage center before being converted into a museum.
The museum is run by the Friends of Hawthorn Tram Depot, a volunteer non-profit group that also publishes the quarterly newsletter The Bellcord. Its collection holds 19 preserved trams at the Hawthorn site, among them one of Melbourne's original cable trams.
The museum is run by volunteers of the Friends of Hawthorn Tram Depot and opens on limited days, so confirm opening times before travelling. The depot sits at the corner of Power Street and Wallen Road in Hawthorn, near the junction of the former Hawthorn Tramways Trust lines. Allow time to walk among the preserved trams in the sheds.
The depot was used as a school for tram drivers and conductors from 1925, and from 1940 the building also produced uniforms for Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board staff. Training and uniform manufacture continued after the depot closed to running trams on 13 February 1965, lasting into the 1990s.
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