What remains of Perth's tram network?

I’ve learned more in the last week by watching your videos than living 47 years in the city

Volunteer from PETS here, I must say great video! It was awesome to see how many bits of Perth's tramway history are still scattered around the metro area. One small correction though, Perth 66 isn't under restoration but is already fully restored and is in our operating fleet. We mainly run Melbourne trams as 66 is not wheelchair accessible, so we normally only run her on occasions where we can run 2 trams. And when it comes to wondering around outside the carbarns, it's a bit iffy. I believe we would prefer if you didn't due to safety concerns, but i highly doubt any volunteers would yell at you haha. And if you would ever like to learn more about what we do, feel free to come down to the carbarns on a Wednesday or Thursday morning between 7:00am and 11:00am, we would love to be able to show you around the crabarns!

Kalamunda has an airbnb where you can stay in an old tram. Its fantastic. Don't remember the specific history of it, but again super cool.

Stumbled upon your channel by chance. Please keep making these videos! It's about time we get more content on Perth's past.

Such a shame Perth doesn’t have its trams anymore. How good would it be to have easy hop on/off transport around the inner suburbs! Hopefully one day we’ll see a return?

As a Perth resident and history nerd, I loved your video! It’s crazy that i’ve walked and driven past these poles and remnants of the network a billion times and never noticed them.

Don't remember too much about trams in Perth, but certainly rode often as a kid on "trolley buses" - no road-level tracks, but overhead electric power connected by booms, not unlike current day electric trains. At the corner of Beaufort & Wellington Sts, the booms sometimes came loose and crashed down on the roof of the bus. The driver had to get out and grab a big pole-mounted tool to reattach to the power lines ! 😊😊😊

My old man is a project manager, the company he was working for done an underground pipeline project in freo and dug up some remains of the tram rails that were buried over many years ago.

“Hopping on a bus wishing it was a tram” as a fellow Perth person, I feel that! I work at the Transport Museum in Whiteman Park and your videos have been so great to watch! The trams and trains running are also dependent on total fire bans during the summer. I also used to live close to the electrical pole in Mount Lawley and never noticed it, I’ll be sure to keep my eyes peeled next time!

Apparently I rode on a Perth tram several months before I was born but I can't say I remember the trip. I haven't checked recently but a number of buildings around central Perth intersections still had the anchor fittings to suspend power cables well into the 2000s. The plaque on Main street does commemorate the terminus which was in the centre of Main street just short of Royal/Hutton streets. There also used to be some photographs on display in Mount Hawthorn of the construction of the tram tracks in that location.Possibly in the clinic / day surgery at the intersection of Oxford street and Scarborough Beach road.

I know it's called Perth trams however there was a network in Fremantle. My grandparents Corgi dog got run over by the one that went out to East Fremantle. I used that tram to go and see them. The best recollection of the tram was when East Fremantle used to play against South Fremantle. A blood bath that would be fought to the last man standing. Fremantle was full of waterside workers (lumpers) and a strong Irish area from descendants of convicts in Fremantle jail (I am one of them). There were special trains put on to bring the spectators in to Fremantle station where they would pack the trams going out to the Oval. It was amazing. Full of men usually drunk even at mid day singing songs and chanting words I didn't understand. Check out the Freo trams next time, A lot of history.

Never been to Australia. I'm a person who enjoys history of things most people don't think about. Excellent video. I enjoyed learning about this.

Very well done.. whilst too young (LOL) to have ridden a tram, I do remember riding a trolley bus with my Nana, probably 55 years ago.

Very well made and narrated documentary on Perth trams. Kudos.

Great history lesson, and could only imagine what Perth would have look like if we still had the trams. The tram pole in Vic Park in front of my cafe Social Manna lead in to a great history for the premise its self…. Like a Miss Florence Cook who had a refreshment parlour on that very corner, who would greet patrons off the the tram with chilled refreshments… As I was restoring the floor boards I found all these vintage bottle tops and also some of her takings ( coins ) from the 1900-1935 era… All proudly on display in the cafe….. to honour her we make our own soda pops.

Tram 66 at the tramway society is fully functioning but only comes out a few times a year on special occasions, keeping it in good shape. The trackless tram project has been cancelled for the present as the state government did not provide funding to the City of Stirling after the trials in November. It was already exported back to China in December.

Interesting video. I remember catching a tram in Perth, as a toddler, with my father. Another fond memory of public transport travel around Perth, as a kid, is the trolley buses in the first half of the 1960's. You should do another video about those.

As a fellow Perthie I really enjoyed this. Bravo!!

Great work, Brendan. This certainly brings back many fond memories of my childhood in Floreat (Floreat Park, as it was in my young days). Trams were fascinating things for small boys who loved anything with wheels, especially if they were on rails!

I was not aware of the plans for the trackless tram, very exciting