Tramway posters, plans & blueprints

Posters

1908 Melbourne Tramways Map – $49.00

A reproduction map, on high quality paper suitable for framing, showing Melbourne’s horse, cable and electric tramways and steam railways in 1908.

2009 Yarra Trams Map – $5.00

The official Yarra Trams route map of Melbourne, as at September 2009. An attractive poster for any enthusiast interested in graphic design and Melbourne’s trams.

Plans

The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board, like many large tramway operators, built and maintained its own tramcar designs. Skilled draughtsmen at the M&MTB produced the engineering plans and blueprints, works of art in themselves.

Detail of technical drawing R2340 – General Arrangement of Bogie Car, Class W2.

The Melbourne Tram Museum @ Hawthorn Tram Depot is the custodian of many of the surviving plans, and is pleased to offer reproductions of these drawings for sale on quality art paper. These plans include:

• R1000 – Sections of Motorman’s Compartment – Class W2
• R1803 – General Arrangement of Bogie Car – Class W1
• R1936 – Section – Open Compartment – Class W2
• R1938 – General Arrangement of Body – Class W2
• R2340 – General Arrangement of Bogie Car – Class W2
• R3052 – General Arrangement of Bogie Car – Class W3
• R3581 – General Arrangement of Body – Class W4
• R8970 – General Arrangement of Standard Car – Class SW2 (unbuilt)

Email info@hawthorntramdepot.org.au for ordering details and prices.

Model makers

Digital copies of plans are also available for licensed sale to both commercial and private model makers to assist in the production of tram models.

Email info@hawthorntramdepot.org.au for further details.