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F-class Sydney tram
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1899· class of two-bogie California combination car trams
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWDRTT F-class Tram: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The F-class trams are a class of two-bogie California combination car trams operated on the Sydney tram network with longitudinal seating in the open part of the car. They were later rebuilt as the L-class trams and some again as the L/P-class trams.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 127 years ago, in 1899.
- 11.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1899–1902
- number built
- 251
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 45 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 600 V DC catenary
- length
- 11.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927151, Wikipedia: F-class Sydney tram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.