This section of the website is for a ‘behinds the scenes’ look at the work that often goes unseen that make the museum run. There are many small and large projects, often running in parallel that helps keep the museum running. Projects in progress will be more like blogs with regular additions until that mini-project is complete, where the page will then ‘freeze’ and be left as a record of the work undertaken.
This page automatically includes all the subpages from this section of the site and lists the posts in each category in ‘last updated’ order. The latest updates in each area are always listed at the top of that section.
Now onto some content
Five latest updates
- YMCA Building – Ground floor Shop
- Restoration of Sydney P 1729
- Loftus Signal Box Relocation and Restoration – A Sydney Trains Project
- Tramway Ave II – Street Track Relay
- Trams After Dark 2024
Tracks and other infrastructure
- YMCA Building – Ground floor Shop
- Loftus Signal Box Relocation and Restoration – A Sydney Trains Project
- Tramway Ave II – Street Track Relay
- Sutherland railway substation – A Sydney Trains project
- Rectification of the main gates
- Display Hall Modernisation Project
- Tramway Ave III – Road Surface Re-sheeting
- Army Hill Reconstruction 2015-2017
- South Shed services installation
- Princes Highway Crossing Approach Track Relay
Below are some of the overall pages documenting the major infrastructure projects that have occurred at the museum in the past decade. Regular updates to specific pages are listed above.
- The YMCA building
- South Shed
- South Hill Track relay
- Depot Junction relay
- Railway Square points
- Tramway Ave I 2012-2014
- Tramway Ave II 2020-2025
- Tramway Ave III 2022-2023
- TAFE cutting (Pitt Street) crossover to Pitt St
- Sutherland Line - TAFE to Waratah Loop
- Waratah Loop
Overhead Works
- Road 13 Overhead Troughing Project
- Royal National Park line storm repairs – Summer 2020/2021
- Royal National Park line pull off installation
- Crossing approach curve pull off installation
- Depot overhead – January 2020
- Overhead – Depot Main pole stablisation
- Trolley-bridge for 4 road workshop extension
- Overhead – Bracket arms moved to new poles – January 2017
- National Park line – Pole replacements and storm damage repairs – Winter 2016
- Sutherland line pole replacements – May 2015
Fleet
- F 393 Virtual Tour
- Restoration of D 117
- 2107 – Wheel re-profile project
- Repainting R1 2001
- R 1740 Virtual tour
- 2107 bogie inspection
- Workshop February 2020
- Workshop January 2020
- Workshop December 2019
- Repainting W2 249
Workshop
- Restoration of D 117
- Repainting R1 2001
- Workshop February 2020
- Workshop January 2020
- Workshop December 2019
- Repainting W2 249
- Workshop November 2019
- Workshop October 2019
- Workshop July 2019
- Workshop June 2019
Events and special hires
- Trams After Dark 2024
- Vintage Tramway Festival 2024
- Turning Back Time: Trams at the Turn of the 20th Century 2023
- International Transport Cavalcade 2023
- Vintage Tramway Festival 2023
- Back to the 50’s – 25th September 2022
- Sydney Weekender visits the Sydney Tramway Museum!
- Vintage Tramway Festival 2022
- Trams After Dark 2021
- Vintage Tramway Festival 2021
Flashback
- Variotram 2107 arrives at Loftus (2018)
- 'Opening' of the Sutherland Railway substation (2017)
- Restoration of the Sutherland railway substation (2017) (This isn't an STM project, but the substation is adjacent to our north terminus.)
- Channel Seven's Sunrise at the Museum (15th July 2013)
- A tribute to Norm Chinn (2012)
- The arrival of O 805 (2011)
- Shooting Through exhibition at MOS (2009)
- Some museum works from early 1997
- Opening of Royal National Park line for museum service (1993)
- Moving trams to the new site and the Royal National Park crossing reinstallation (1988 & 1993)
- SPER in the 80's (A collection of highlights in the museum's history during the construction of the new site)
- Museum activities and developments between 1965-1972
- Opening of the museum at the old RNP site on 13th March, 1965
- Establishment of SPER at the Royal National Park (1959-1961)
