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what is it?
The M-class was a class of 17 trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide for the Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT) as numbers 1 to 10, and 33 to 39. All passed to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board on 2 February 1920 when it took over the Municipal Tramway Trusts, becoming the M-class and being renumbered 107 to 116, and 183 to 189. These were four-wheel (single truck) trams of the California open-combination, drop-end body design, of which several dozen others operated in Melbourne under various operator, differing in details to varying extents.
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 110 years ago, in 1916.
- Weighs about as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1916
- number built
- 17
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Duncan & Fraser
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- weight
- 12.2 t
- capacity
- 38 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30637131, Wikipedia: M class Melbourne tram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.