#1381
A type Adelaide tram
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Duncan & Fraser· from 1908· class of 20th-century tram in Adelaide
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Adelaide Type A tram number 1 as restored to its 1909 condition, March 2009: William Adams· Public domain
what is it?
The A type Adelaide tram is a class of 70 drop-end combination trams built to a "Californian" design by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide in 1908/09 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT). They were used on tram lines to Kensington, Marryatville, Maylands, Payneham, Wakerville, North Adelaide, Parkside, Unley and Hyde Park. In later years they were cascaded to quieter services to Croydon and the isolated Port Adelaide network.
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 118 years ago, in 1908.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1908
- number built
- 70
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Duncan & Fraser
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- weight
- 10.9 t
- capacity
- 40 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q48792475, Wikipedia: A type Adelaide tram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.