Fifty Years
Celebrating the Ballarat trams
On 19 September 1971, the last trams operated in the streets of Ballarat. The tramway had opened in 1887 as a horse powered service by the Ballaarat Tramway Company. Now a small section of the original tramway allows a three km round trip through the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, operated by the volunteers of the Ballarat Tramway Museum, with many of the original historic tram cars. Plans to celebrate the both the Ballarat trams, and the 50 years of dedication by the volunteers at the BTM have been postponed as a result of the COVID 19 lockdowns.
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