#1676
E class Melbourne tram
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Duncan & Fraser· from 1914· 1920 tram class of the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ballarat tram 38: Peterdownunder· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The E-class was a group of 10 trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide, for the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust (P&MTT) in 1914, numbered 36 to 45. Number 36 was converted to a different form by the P&MTT c. 1916, and was later designated D-class. All retained their fleet numbers when passed to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (M&MTB) after it took over the P&MTT on 2 February 1920, and they were designated E-class sometime after October 1921.
who runs it
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 112 years ago, in 1914.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.5 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
- 1914
- number built
- 9
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Duncan & Fraser
- operators
- Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 13.5 m
- weight
- 17.5 t
- capacity
- 56 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30606304, Wikipedia: E class Melbourne tram (1914) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.