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B type Adelaide tram
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Duncan & Fraser· from 1909· class of 20th-century tram in Adelaide
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Adelaide type B tram no 42 at Tramway Museum, St Kilda: Peripitus· Public domain
what is it?
The B type Adelaide tram was a class of 30 straight sill, open cross-bench trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide in 1909 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT). Although popular in summer, they were less so in winter when exposed to inclement weather. Thus in 1917 with the MTT requiring more trams, 41-60 were converted to Californian combination trams, closely resembling the A type 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 117 years ago, in 1909.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1909
- number built
- 30
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Duncan & Fraser
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- weight
- 10.6 t
- capacity
- 50 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q48792478, Wikipedia: B type Adelaide tram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.