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N-class Sydney tram
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Randwick Tramway Workshops· from 1901· type of streetcar
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWDRTT N-class Tram: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The N-class trams are a crossbench design of tram with a two-bogie design, each pair of benches had doors at each side. They were attached to Dowling Street, Newtown, Rozelle, Tempe, Ultimo, Enfield and Rockdale depots. Nine were transferred to Newcastle as steam trailers in 1915, all later returned and had their electrical equipment reinstated.
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 125 years ago, in 1901.
- 11.3 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
- 1901
- number built
- 97
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Randwick Tramway Workshops, Ritchie Brothers, Meadowbank Manufacturing Company
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 45 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 600 V DC catenary
- length
- 11.3 m
- capacity
- 60 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927336, Wikipedia: N-class Sydney tram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.