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N class Melbourne tram
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Duncan & Fraser· from 1916· 1920 tram class of the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board
what is it?
The N-class was a class of 10 trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide for the Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT) as numbers 11 to 20, all passed to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (M&MTB) on 2 February 1920, when it took over the HTT, becoming the N-class and being renumbered 117 to 126. These were Maximum Traction bogie tramcars of the drop-end-and-centre design (precursors of the Melbourne W class trams), with four doorways in the open centre (smokers') compartment as well as one at the front and another at the rear; each of the two passenger saloons featured four side windows. The cars were very similar to trams built by Duncan & Fraser for the contemporary Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust (P&MTT) in 1913/14, which had three saloon windows, a larger smokers' compartment, and three centre doorways.
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 3 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
- 10
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Duncan & Fraser
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- weight
- 16.3 t
- capacity
- 48 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30637134, Wikipedia: N class Melbourne tram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.