| Horse trams in Adelaide | |
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.png) Horse tram no. 18 of the Adelaide & Suburban Tramway Company, now at the Tramway Museum, St Kilda. Built by the John Stephenson Company of New York, it was one of the first trams ordered for Adelaide's new services. | |
| Operation | |
| Locale | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Status | Key dates:
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| Infrastructure | |
| Track gauge | 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), except one line of 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion system(s) | Usually two horses, sometimes three |
| Depot(s) | 19 company depots |
| Stock | 162 cars and 1056 horses in 1907 |
| Statistics | |
| Track length (total) | 119 km (74 mi) by 1901; double track nearer the city, mainly single with passing loops further out. |
This article – one of several about Adelaide’s tramways – covers the three decades before the 1910s when horses provided the motive power for all trams over a 74 miles (120 kilometres) network. Links to an overview and other articles are in the following panel.
Links to other articles
about trams in Adelaide
about trams in Adelaide
The article you are reading concerns horse trams in South Australia's capital city.The overview article about Adelaide's trams is Trams in Adelaide.
Other articles are:
- Tram types in Adelaide (1878–)
- Glenelg ("South Terrace") line (1873–)
- Municipal Tramways Trust (1907–1975); includes the electric street network (1909–1958)
- W.G.T. Goodman, General Manager MTT (1907–1950)
- State Transport Authority (1975–1994)
- TransAdelaide, branded as Adelaide Metro from 2000 (1994–2010)
- Department for Infrastructure and Transport, branded as Adelaide Metro (2010–)
- Trolleybuses in Adelaide (1937–1963).
A related article is Tramway Museum, St Kilda. The museum's collection, much of it operational, includes almost every type of tram that ran in Adelaide in the 20th century.