Which cities have trams in Australia?

Since the turn of the 21st century tramway networks have been reconstructed in Sydney and in Newcastle, extended in Adelaide and brand new systems have been built on the Gold Coast and in Canberra (marking the first time these two cities have had trams). Restored vintage trams are very popular in their various forms.



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The Sydney light rail network (or Sydney Light Rail) is a light rail/tram system serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Melbourne, the most populous city in and capital of Victoria, is home to the largest tram network in the world, and its trams have become part of the city's culture and identity due to their long history.

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Trams in Australia are now used public transport only in Melbourne, and to a much lesser extent, Adelaide and Bendigo. Most Australian cities however used to have extensive tram networks however these networks were largely dismantled during the 1950s and 1960's.

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By 1948 Brisbane's trams failed to return a profit as they could not compete with the more efficient bus services.

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The view has been frequently expressed that the retention of the Melbourne tramway system during this period, is due almost solely to Sir Robert's strong management and his very firmly held (and public) view that tramcars were the most appropriate urban transport vehicle for servicing the inner suburban areas of large ...

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Lyon won the gold for being home to the best performing tram system in large cities across the world. With a slew of public transport options available which includes bus routes, metro, and soft transport modes as well as the tram corridor, Lyon has a systematic mode of transport connecting the entire city.

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Operating systems
  • Blackpool.
  • Edinburgh.
  • South London.
  • Manchester.
  • Nottingham.
  • Sheffield.
  • Tyne and Wear.
  • West Midlands.


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There was also a strong financial reason why London Transport wanted to scrap the trams. It was alleged that the trams were losing about one million pounds per annum, and that both vehicles and track were worn out. The cost of replacement and renewal would be great.

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Trams were seen to impede on the freedom of private car owners in the city: the authorities believed that removing the tramways and replacing them with buses would allow for easier transport in and around Glasgow.

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The advent of buses and large-scale competition meant that buses often ran the same routes as the trams and would jump in front to grab customers, and buses were able to move into Dublin's expanding hinterland more quickly and at less cost than the trams, and the belief that trams were outdated and old technology, ...

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Nevertheless, closure became government policy in the early 1950s and the system was wound down in stages, with withdrawal of the services completed on 25 February 1961 when R1 class tram 1995 returned from La Perouse to Randwick Workshops just before 4:40pm on 25 February 1961, which was driven by Jerry Valek, a ...

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In the late 1980s, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council identified the possibility of using a modern tramway as a means of stimulating urban renewal, as well as tackling road congestion. Plans began from around 1990, by Nottingham Development Enterprise, under Malcolm Reece.

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But the trams had become a political football (in Leeds it was Labour that did for them, in Liverpool it was the Conservatives). They were unwanted clutter from the past at a time when operating costs of public transport networks were rising and meeting housing targets was the big priority for investment.

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