Launceston Tramway Museum Society (LTMS) |
The Launceston Tramway Museum Society aims to preserve the heritage transport of Launceston with five of the 29 trams which operated in Launceston: Trams 1, 8, 23, 26 and 29.
The Tram Restoration Group, as it was first known, was formed through the efforts of 15yr old Marcus Hall. Marcus had retrieved the dilapidated shell of Tram 29 and had it moved to Westbury, then to Launceston. In 1995 Tram 29 was delivered back to its birthplace, the old Launceston Municipal Tramway depot and workshop where the LTMS was born (adjacent to the Inveresk railway site, since redeveloped into an educational and heritage precinct). Over the next few years Tram 29 was restored to its former glory and fitted out to run.
The reconstruction and restoration work is undertaken by volunteers at the old LMT depot at Inveresk, which closed in May 1932 due to being in an area that had been frequently flooded. Fortunately some of its original track and a maintenance pit are still in situ.
The LTMS began the gradual transition from a purely restoration society to a museum exhibition facility with the construction of a new building in 2004 opening officially on 23 September 2006. The new venue provides space to display two trams, the Mary Street shelter, as well as room for smaller exhibitions.
The LTMS is currently open to the public on Saturdays between 10am -4pm and at other times by appointment, when the restored Tram 29 is able to run on the Inveresk track and is the only working tram operating in Tasmania.
For further information on the LTMS museum or group bookings phone 63265168 / 0418390259 or go to the web site
❊ Address ❊
⊜ 2 - 4 Invermay Road Invermay 7248 View Map
✆ Telephone: 6326 5168 | 0418 390259
❊ Web Links ❊
➼ Launceston Tramway Museum Society (LTMS)
➼ www.ltms.org.au
❊ Also See.. ❊
➼ The Tramsheds
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